Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders
Date 2007
Event ID 603109
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/603109
Rutherglen Bridge was built from 1893–96, and links Main Street to Shawfield Drive. It consists of three low-rise segmental masonry arches of 90 ft and 100 ft span faced with grey granite from Cornwall, Dalbeattie and Aberdeen. The engineers were Crouch & Hogg and the contractor, Morrison & Mason. The temporary steelwork for the erection of the bridge was furnished by Sir Wm. Arrol & Co.
This bridge replaced a five-span segmental arch stone bridge, 16 ft wide between parapet faces, built in 1774–75 to the design of James Watt and costing about £2000 (see NS66SW 959).
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission of Thomas Telford Publishers.
