Architecture Notes
Event ID 814190
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/814190
NMRS REFERENCE:
ARCHITECTS:
James Burn of Haddington - 1802-5.
William Byack - widened - 1805-08.
Sir William Kelly - parapets - 1805-08.
Sydney Boyce - bas reliefs - 1805-08.
Sir John Rennie - unexecuted plan -1802.
James Young, London - unexecuted plan including street - 1801.
David Hamilton - unexecuted plan of - 1800.
Thomas Telford - suggestions only partly adopted - 1802.
EXTERNAL REFERENCE:
Aberdeen Public Library - Local Collection - lithograph by John Henderson view of Denburn Valley etc, c.1840.
Aberdeen Public Library - Local Collection - slides of Union Bridge and Bow Bridge, Union Bridge underconstruction to Telford's design, 1803-04.
NMRS REFERENCE:
NMRS Inventory of plans held in Aberdeen Art Gallery, typescript, R6 P20.
NMRS REFERENCE:
1803 finished c.1805 widened 1907.
Originally entirely a granite structure, opened the way to the expansion of Aberdeen, Westwards. Designed by James Burn of Haddington and approved by Telford. The Bridge was widened later. The cast Iron panels with seated leopards were designed by Dr William Kelly.
EXTERNAL REFERENCE:
Plans - Plans showing proposed widening by A Marshall Mackenzie and Son. Old plans in possession, May 1941, of A G R Mackenzie, ARSA, FRIBA, 3 Bon Accord Square, Aberdeen.
EXTERNAL REFERENCE:
Aberdeen Public Library - Reference Department
PUBLICATIONS:
'Aberdeen In Bygone Days'.
'Milne's Aberdeen'.
'Aberdeen 50 Years Ago'.
'Munro, A.M. Article in People's Journal , 19th November 1904.
PHOTOGRAPHS:
Lithogrpah by James D Harding showing the bridge during construction, 1803-05.
Photographic copy of drawing showing Telford's design and interior of one of the arches on the West abutment, 1905.
Lithograph from drawing by Sir John Carr from the roadway of the Bow Bridge, 1807.
Coloured lithograph showing small bridges over the Burn and view of Denburn and Union Bridge.
NMRS REFERENCE:
Aberdeen - Two bridges for Trustees for Making New Streets advertisement for tenders, Edinburgh Evening Courant, March 12 1801.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
