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Latitude: 55.069 / 55°4'8"N
Longitude: -3.6176 / 3°37'3"W
OS Eastings: 296800
OS Northings: 576138
OS Grid: NX968761
Mapcode National: GBR 395T.LQ
Mapcode Global: WH5WJ.DVKF
Plus Code: 9C7R399J+HX
Entry Name: New Bridge, Dumfries
Listing Name: Buccleuch Street, Buccleuch Street Bridge
Listing Date: 6 March 1981
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 362583
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26096
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: New Bridge
Dumfries, New Bridge
ID on this website: 200362583
Location: Dumfries
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Town: Dumfries
Electoral Ward: North West Dumfries
Traditional County: Kirkcudbrightshire
Tagged with: Road bridge
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.).
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