Kilmarnock, Old Street, Riccarton Old Bridge
Road Bridge (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Kilmarnock, Old Street, Riccarton Old Bridge
Classification Road Bridge (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) River Irvine
Canmore ID 42821
Site Number NS43NW 45
NGR NS 42786 36564
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/42821
- Council East Ayrshire
- Parish Kilmarnock
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Kilmarnock And Loudoun
- Former County Ayrshire
NS43NW 45 42786 36564
Riccarton New Bridge [NAT]
OS (GIS) MasterMap, March 2010.
For (successor and present) New Bridge (situated immediately downstream, at NS 42753 36560), see NS43NW 83.
Riccarton Bridge is an 18th century 3-span, segmental arched bridge, with dressed stone arch rings, rubble spandrels and triangular cutwaters.
J R Hume 1976
As described.
Visited by OS (JRL) 7 July 1982.
Riccarton Old Bridge carries Old Street across the River Irvine, which her forms the boundary between the parishes of Kilmarnock (to the N) and Riccarton (to the S).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 28 June 2006.
