Alternative Names White Cart Water; Cathcart Old Bridge; Netherlee Road Bridge; Old Snuff Mill Bridge
Site type ROAD BRIDGE
Canmore ID 44300
Site Number NS56SE 39
NGR NS 58527 60141
Council GLASGOW, CITY OF
Parish CATHCART (CITY OF GLASGOW)
Former Region STRATHCLYDE
Former District CITY OF GLASGOW
Former County LANARKSHIRE

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Cathcart Old Bridge, Snuffmill Road, c.1725
On part of the Gorbals to Carmunnock turnpike road, as well as the route to Ayr. Datestone of 1624 incorporated in 18th-century reconstruction. Large masonry single arch, springs from west bank cliff, low single round arch subsidiary span on east side.


Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk

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Archaeological Notes

NS56SE 39 58527 60141

(NS 5852 6014) Old Br (NAT)
OS 6" map, (1967)

For (adjacent to SE) Snuff Mill, see NS56SE 147.00.

Not to be confused with Cathcart, Holmlea Road, New Bridge (NS 58387 60626), for which see NS56SE 1167.

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:
Photographs:
Mitchell Library, Glasgow in the 40s. no.26 - reproduction of watercolour.
(Undated) information in NMRS.

Cathcart Old Bridge: A stone on the outside of the parapet on the NE side is dated 1624.
A Gartshore 1938.

Cathcart Old Bridge: A simple single-span bridge, with an additional but considerably smaller arch on the east. The date stone mentioned above may still be seen. The bridge has recently been repaired and is in good condition.
Visited by OS (J L D) 5 April 1951.

Netherlee Road Bridge, built in the 18th century. A two-span rubble bridge over the White Cart, with the road on an incline. The southern arch is narrow and semicircular, the northern wide and segmental. A datestone '1624' was probably reinserted at a reconstruction of the bridge. SDD category B.
J R Hume 1974.

Cathcart Old Bridge, across the White Cart Water. Datestone 1624 (ex situ). The bridge is probably late 18th century: one arch (S) narrow and semicircular, the other (N) wide and segmental.
E Williamson, A Riches and M Higgs 1990.

This bridge carries an unclassified public road (Snuff Mill Road) over the White Cart Water within the Cathcart area of SW suburban Glasgow and to the S of Cathcart Station (NS56SE 633).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 February 2006.

Notes and Activities

1624	MODIFICATION

Project Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders

Notes Date of 1624 appears on the bridge, may be to do with modifications rather than original build date. No further dating information available.

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2007	PUBLICATION ACCOUNT

Project Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders

Notes An historic bridge with a 59 ft span segmental arch of squared, coursed sandstone masonry over the White Cart Water. The roadway is on a downwards gradient from west to east and is 10 ft wide between parapet faces. Three iron tie bars through the crown and spandrel walls probably date from the 19th century.
A small flood relief semicircular arch on the downstream face of the east abutment bears the date 1624.

R Paxton and S Shipway 2007

Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission of Thomas Telford Publishers.

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2007	AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY

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2007

PROJECT

Notes This project was undertaken to input site information listed in 'Civil engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' by R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.

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Books and References

Gartshore, A (1938) Cathcart memorials,
Page(s): 35

Hume, J R (1974) The industrial archaeology of Glasgow, Glasgow
Page(s): 281 no. M60 Held at RCAHMS D.12.4.IND

Paxton and Shipway, R and J (2007) Civil engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders, London
Page(s): 226-7 Held at RCAHMS J.5.41.PAX

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