Corrie Aqueduct Bridge

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 18/08/2008 Local Authority Stirling Planning Authority Stirling Parish Drymen National Park Loch Lomond And The Trossachs NGR NS 48530 95709 Coordinates 248530, 695709 — Loch Lomond And Trossachs National Park Planning Authority John F Bateman (engineer) and Wylie-Smith-Davie (ironwork), dated 1858; some alterations 1860-64. Relatively low-lying 332 yard aqueduct bridge comprising iron trough carried on two earth and battered masonry embankments with single battered masonry pier to centre. Cast-iron trough to embankment sections; riveted wrought-iron to centre; coursed, bull-faced sandstone to pier and embankment. Sandstone ashlar cope and regularly-spaced gated manhole entrances to masonry embankments. Conduit emerges from sandstone archway at each end; standard GCWW plain cast-iron railings. Security cover and railings added to embankment sections of trough 2007. — The longest of the five principal aqueduct bridges built as part of the first phase of the Glasgow Corporation Water Works system (see below for significance of the scheme as a whole) from 1856 onwards. The conduit is predominantly subterranean, but the geography at the top end of the scheme necessitated a number of aqueduct bridges. Although this aqueduct bridge only has one central pier, at 332 yards it is more than 1½ times length of the next longest aqueduct bridge on scheme (Couligartan 3 - see separate listing). At the time of building the surrounding area was uninhabited, there were no roads and the local stone was unsuitable for building. The engineer, John Bateman, described these aqueduct bridges as 'somewhat peculiar', and their design results from the lack of available building stone. The iron construction was much more expensive and technologically difficult than building

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.