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Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders
Date 2007
Event ID 605570
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/605570
This bridge, crossing the Kelvin between Kirklee Road and Clouston Street, was built from 1899–1901 at a cost of £22 000 of which a £9000 contribution was payable by the Caledonian Railway for disturbance of city streets by railway operations.
A substantial traditional style 50 ft wide single-span semi-elliptical arch of 80 ft span with a rise of 3134
ft 9 in., and adjacent 18 ft wide arches for pedestrian use in the abutments, all in red sandstone. Its embellishments include pairs of Ionic columns in polished pink granite and elaborately carved Glasgow coats-of-arms on each elevation. The balustrades also are of pink granite. A bridge with gravitas!
The engineer was Charles Forman (d. 1901) of Formans & McCall and the contractor, Wm. & Charles Wilson.
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission of Thomas Telford Publishers.
