Alness, High Street, Old Bridge
Road Bridge (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Alness, High Street, Old Bridge
Classification Road Bridge (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Alness Bridge; Novar Road; River Averon; Alness River; Telford Bridge
Canmore ID 13627
Site Number NH66NE 21
NGR NH 65454 69632
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/13627
- Council Highland
- Parish Alness
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH66NE 21 65454 69632
Alness Bridge [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1992
Location formerly entered as NH 65449 69632.
For corresponding footbridge (adjacent to N), see NH66NE 119.
For successor (by-pass) bridge (NH 65657 68535, to S), see NH66NE 122.
ARCHITECT: Thomas Telford (1803-21).
(Undated) information from NMRS.
(Location cited as NH 642 716). Bridge, Alness, built c. 1810, engineer Thomas Telford. A rubble bridge, with a single segmental arch.
J R Hume 1977.
This bridge carries the former line of the A9 (T) public road (now the B817) over the River Averon or Alness River in the middle of Alness (NH66NE 34). The river here forms the boundary between the parishes of Alness (to the W) and Rosskeen (to the E).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 13 June 2001.
The location assigned to this record defines the midpoint of the structure. The available map evidence indicates that it extends from NH c. 65438 69633 to NH c. 65465 69633.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 April 2006.
Publication Account (2007)
The 44 ft span segmental arch road bridge in the town of Alness (NH 6545 6963) over the same river, although undoubtedly influenced by Telford’s standard design and usually dated ca.1810 and attributed to him, does not seem to have come under the Commissioners jurisdiction. It is more sophisticated than the usual Highland bridge with a double string course and squared stone in the arch-rings, curved tapering pilasters, spandrels, wing
walls and parapets.
R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
