Architecture Notes

Event ID 795371

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/795371

NMRS REFERENCE:

Glasgow, Stockwell Bridge, Old Glasgow Bridge, Bishop Rae's Bridge, Old Stockwell Bridge.

Bishop William Rae (d. 1367) ordered the building of Old Glasgow Bridge (Bishop Rae's Bridge/Stockwell Bridge) in 1345-1350. The bridge was removed in 1851 and replaced by the Victoria Bridge.

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

Stockwell Bridge

The Mitchell Library, Glasgow.

Glasgow in Former Times I - 2 Engravings

Glasgow in Former Times II - pencil and wash

- 2 pencil being demolished May 1850

Swan's "Views of Glasgow" - 1 Engraving

Old Stockwell Bridge

Erected by Bishop Rae in 1345

The Mitchell Library, Glasgow.

Glasgow in Former Times I p.102 - Lithograph 1846

Glasgow in Former Times II - Engraving 1850

T.Fairburn Relics of Anc. Arch. No. 19 - Drawing