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Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands
Date 2007
Event ID 882720
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/882720
This substantial bridge, of the pre-reformation era at the intersection of the old military roads from Edinburgh to Aberdeen and Fochabers, was built in the 1520s to span the North Esk. It has three spans of about 50 ft and ribbed semicircular arches and is of similar construction to the Bridge of Dee, Aberdeen. Both bridges were built under the aegis of Bishop Gavin Dunbar by Thomas Franche, master mason, to the design of Alexander Galloway Minister of Kinkeld.
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007b
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission of Thomas Telford Publishers.
