Dunglass, Viaduct, Oldhamstocks
Description: Dunglass, Viaduct
Category: A
Date Listed: 5 February 1971
Historic Scotland Building ID: 14731
OS Grid Coordinates: 377068, 672148
Latitude/Longitude: 55.9418, -2.3687
Location: A1, East Lothian TD13 5XE
Locality: Oldhamstocks
County: East Lothian
Country: Scotland
Postcode: TD13 5XE
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Listing Text
Grainger and Miller, circa 1840. Multi-span railway viaduct
with wildest span of 40 metres at centre. Bull-faced, coursed
sandstone with ashlar dressings. Battered bases to piers.
Segmental archways with string courses at impost level. Bold,
panelled pylons flanking central arch, with recessed panels,
diminishing breadth and raised blocking course in Egyptian
manner, breaking the parapet. Pronounced, pulvinated string
course below ashlar coped parapet.
References:
C McWilliam LOTHIAN (1978), p.194.
Notes:
Remarkable design both technically and in its simple
grandeur. The third of 4 bridges spanning the dene in close
succession, and entering Berwickshire.Also listed in Cockburnspath
Parish, Scottish Borders.
Source: Historic Scotland
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