Buccleuch Street Bridge

Heritage listing

Category B Group Category Details 100000020 - See Notes Date Added 06/03/1981 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Burgh Dumfries NGR NX 96800 76138 Coordinates 296800, 576138 — Thomas Boyd, 1792-4. Roadbridge, 5 segmental arches over River Nith. Roadway widened on steel cantilevers 1893, James Barbour architect, Sir William Arroll, engineer; strengthened 1935 in reinforced concrete; N edge girder renewed and roadway further widened to S 1984-5 with both steel parapets renewed approximately to Barbour's design, Babtie Shaw & Morton, engineers. Red ashlar, with cutwaters built up by Barbour to support roadway; parapets articulated by Barbour's sculptured piers. — B Group with 1-4 and 43-46 Galloway Street (Items 123 and 126). Formerly called the New Bridge. Bronze plaque on parapet pier by J G MacLellan Arnott. Sculpture and ornament over cutwaters proposed by Boyd not executed. Alexander Stevens had been commissioned to produce a design for widening the old bridge, before it was agreed (1791) that a new bridge should be built. (Edgar, DUMFRIES ETC, 1915 p158n.).

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.