Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders
Date 2007
Event ID 590552
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/590552
Another development-led improvement in the tradition of the North and South Bridges created the picturesque
eastern approach to Edinburgh by the Regent Road and Calton Hill, planned by Robert Stevenson and leading
architects Playfair, Hamilton and Elliot. A key element of the Regent Road approach to Princes Street was the Regent Arch, semicircular masonry arch of 50 ft span built from 1815–19 carrying Waterloo Place over Lower Calton Street. It was designed by Stevenson as part of the Waterloo Place building development for which Elliot was the architect.
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission of Thomas Telford Publishers.
