Partick Bridge Over River Kelvin

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 09/09/2006 Local Authority Glasgow Planning Authority Glasgow Burgh Glasgow NGR NS 56538 66431 Coordinates 256538, 666431 — 1876-8, manufacturer Hannah, Donald & Wilson of Paisley, engineers R B Bell & D Miller, contractor Hugh Kennedy. Single cast-iron arched road bridge with stone flood discharge tunnel to S. 4-centred arch formed of 9 ribs. Quatrefoil tracery pattern with shield motif to parapet. City of Glasgow Coat of Arms to spandrels. Abutments, piers and approach walls of red sandstone ashlar. Semi-octagonal towers reaching above the parapet at the abutments. Terminates with pair of large squat polygonal piers with stepped polygonal caps to NW and SE. 4 inset cast-iron panels to NE and SW with inscriptions mirrored (see Notes). Cast-iron lamps to approach walls dated 1994. — A good example of a cast-iron road bridge with a notable decorative quatrefoil tracery parapet. Bell & Miller were responsible for a number of cast-iron bridges in Glasgow including the Clyde Street Albert Bridge and the Great Western Road Bridge over the River Kelvin (both listed at category A). It forms a significant part of the streetscape in this area. The inscriptions read, 'PARTICK BRIDGE FOUNDATION STONE LAID AD 1877 BY HUGH KIRKWOOD ESQ KILLERMONT' and 'PARTICK BRIDGE COMMENCED AD 1876 JOHN FERGUSON ESQ PROVOST OF PARTICK ENGINEERS R B BELL & D MILLER CONTRACTOR HUGH KENNEDY'. The adjacent 'Snow Bridge' (see separate listing) carried traffic over the River Kelvin at Partick until this bridge was constructed. The parallel lattice covered pipeway to the SW is part of the nearby Partick Sewage Pumping Station and carried steam to the Kelvin Hall (see separate listings). Part of Kelvingrove Park West B group, comprising 10 Dumbarton Road, Partick Sewage Pumping Stat

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.