Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands
Date 2007
Event ID 930327
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/930327
Town Bridge, Nairn
The Town Bridge, an asymmetrical triple-arch structure spanning the Nairn with its middle and western arches, was completed in 1803. It carries a roadway sloping from west to east and its width, since widening in 1936 under the direction of F. A. MacDonald and Partners (Glasgow) Ltd, is 3812 ft between parapets.
The bridge was designed and built by architect-engineer George Burn and exhibits the range of architectural details found on several of his other bridges, recessed arch-rings surmounted by archivolts, blind oculi, denticulated stringcourses, ashlar parapets and copings. The bridge was
partially destroyed in the great flood of 1829 and rebuilt soon afterwards, and again in 1868.
R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
