Architecture Notes
Event ID 837380
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
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EXTERNAL REFERENCE:
Scottish Record Office
Ceremony of Laying the Foundation Stone of Stirling Bridge, 8th September 1831.
Programme.
A note adds that to prevent accidents, no spectators will be allowed on the Old Bridge.
1831 GD 189/6/10
Building the New Bridge.
'...what of the parapet has been done looks pretty well and has a neat appearance.
I still think, however, that a cope stone projecting more at both sides would
have looked more massy and finished like and have been more in tone with the
massive moulding below and also with the several rustic expressions of the
outer face..'
Letter from James Smith to William Murray of Polmaise.
1833 GD 189/2/741
Proposed new bridge at Stirling.
Copy of Minutes of a General Meeting of the County of Stirling and a copy of
Minutes of the Committe on the new bridge.
1823 GD 189/6/8
(Undated) information in NMRS.