Archaeology Notes

Event ID 692041

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/692041

NO66SE 21 68597 65008

Marykirk Bridge (NAT)

OS 1:10,000 map, (1977)

For adjacent tollhouse (on S side of river), see NO66SE 45.

For corresponding railway viaduct (upstream), see NO66NE 65.

Not to be confused with Upper North Water Bridge (NO 65271 66139), for which see NO66NE 25.

Marykirk Bridge (HBD No. 7) North Water Bridge (cf NO66NE 25): Built 1814, engineer Robert Stevenson. A very handsome four-span bridge, with massive dressed stone arch-rings and coursed rubble spandrels with wing walls. There are rounded cutwaters, and occuli in the spandrels between the spans.

J R Hume 1977.

Marykirk Bridge, 1811-14, Robert Stevenson. Four segmental arches, with recessed circular panels in the spandrels, and fine ashlar cutwaters.

J Geddes 2001.

This bridge carries the A937 public road over the River North Esk to the SW of Marykirk village (NO66NE 51). The river here forms the boundary between the parishes of Logie Pert (Angus) and Marykirk (Kincardineshire), to the SW and NE respectively.

The location assigned to this record defines the centre of the structure. The available map evidence indicates that it extends from NO c. 68633 65048 to NO c. 68573 64982.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 11 April 2006.