Loch Alvie, Alvie Bridge

Alvie Old And New Bridge On A9

1925-26
Sir Owen Williams (engineer) Maxwell Ayrton (architect)
10 + 10 m
B1952
Allt Dibheach
arch
reinforced concrete
NH 8705 0928
Comments :
Two arched, reinforced concrete Modern Movement bridge with distinctive faceted concrete sides and 6-sided shuttered arches. Splayed piers forming cutwater to centre and retaining walls at banks. Small parapets to road. This is one of eight bridges along the A9 designed and built by these architects between 1924 and 1928. The bridges combine imaginative aesthetics with innovative sturctural design in reinforced concrete, and are thought to have been designed as alien forms within the landscape. They were cast in-situ, which adds to their historic significance. The faceted sides of this bridge may have been influenced by the Cubist movement, although the design also served a practical purpose. The bridge reinforcements are now suffering from corrosion. [HER]
HER
Historic