Inverbeg Bridge

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 02/02/2004 Local Authority Argyll And Bute Planning Authority Argyll And Bute Parish Luss National Park Loch Lomond And The Trossachs NGR NS 34469 97939 Coordinates 234469, 697939 — Roadbridge, built on the line of the military road to Inveraray, which dates from 1744-1750 (Gifford and Walker). 20th century datestone on western parapet inscribed 'Bridge built 1762/ ? widened 1914'. As part of the latter phase of work, the roadway was also set on a curve, with new ashlar parapets added. Original bridge is a single-arch stone span with squared voussoirs, and steel ties added. 1914 work (which extends the roadway east, following the profile of the original arch) is concrete with ashlar facing and voussoirs. Parapets extend beyond archway in both directions and are topped by rounded coping stones. Gates and square-plan rubble gatepiers, enclosing the gallery as private space, added at north end, presumably when this bridge was by-passed and substituted by its (now demolished) pre- or early post-war successor further east. — Datestone also inscribed 'F C Buchanan Convenor of the County/ R E Findlay, Chairman, County Road Board/ Archibald Wilson, County Road Surveyor'. The road linking Inveraray and Dumbarton was built by the military in 1744-1749, to a line surveyed by Dugald Campbell and [-] Brereton, military engineers, largely (at least) under the supervision of Major William Caulfield, whose work was interrupted by the 1745-1746 Rising. The road's creation was a result of pressure by the 3rd Duke of Argyll (1682-1761), builder of Inveraray Castle, who inherited 1743, and for whose family well-known bridges (notably the Garron Bridge, by Roger Morris, begun 1744) built on and near this same stretch of roadway, served as estate bridges, designed by ar

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.