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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 728004
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/728004
NX98NW 23 91159 86345
Location formerly cited as NX 91165 86353.
For (successor and present) Auldgirth, New Bridge (adjacent to SE), see NX98NW 80.
Auldgirth Bridge [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1982.
(Location cited as NX 912 864). Auldgirth Bridge: built about 1780. A handsome three-span bridge 200 ft long, of dressed stone construction, with segmental arches on narrow piers, with rounded cutwaters extended upwards to form unusual pedestrian refuges with curved heads. (At the E end is a distinctive inn with Gothic windows).
J R Hume 1976.
The red sandstone Old Bridge over the Nith was designed by David Henderson and built by William Stewart in 1781-2. Three segmental arches of ashlar. Bow-ended cutwaters of hammer-dressed masonry, each surmounted by a pair of coupled pilasters carrying an entablature topped by a half-dome; this top part forms a refuge in which a pedestrian could crouch to escape the bridge's traffic.
J Gifford 1996.
NMRS NOTES
Historic Scotland - delisted 23.10.2000.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
Auldgirth Bridge, 1782, David Henderson. Three segmental arches over the Nith; paired pilasters on cutwaters either side of arches support pedestrian refuges. Thomas Carlyle's father was employed as a hewer on its construction.
J R Hume 2000.
This bridge carries the former line of the A76 (T) public road across the River Nith immediately SW of Auldgirth village (NX98NW 79). The river here forms the boundary between the parishes of Closeburn (tro the NE) and Keir (to the SW).
The location assigned to this record defines the midpoint of the structure. The available map evidence indicates that it extends from NX c. 91149 86332 to NX c. 91172 86364.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 22 March 2006.
