Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders
Date 2007
Event ID 602908
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/602908
This bridge, between Stockwell Street and Gorbals Street, is now the oldest road bridge crossing the river. It has five low-rise segmental arches on a skew of 618 varying in span from 67 ft to 80 ft at the centre, where the rise is only 10 ft 6 in. It is constructed in light-coloured local sandstone and faced with granite from Kingston, near Dublin, and is one of the finest examples of its type in Scotland.
The foundation stone was laid on 9 April 1851 by the Duke of Atholl and the bridge was opened on 1 January 1854. The engineer was James Walker and the contractor, William Scott. The cost was about £46 000.
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission of Thomas Telford Publishers.
