Regent Bridge, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 April 1966. Bridge. 1 related planning application.

Regent Bridge, Edinburgh

WRENN ID: tilted-newel-stoat
Grade: A
Local Planning Authority: City of Edinburgh
Country: Scotland
Date first listed: 19 April 1966
Type: Bridge
Source: Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Archibald Elliot, with Robert Stevenson, 1815-19. Single semicircular-span bridge over Calton Road surmounted by classical screens on either side of Waterloo Place. Droved ashlar with polished voussoirs and polished ashlar to screens. Impost course; archivolt; band course; crowning cornice.

Pair of screens to Waterloo Place with base course, entablature and blocking course. Central semicircular arch with console keystone and archivolt, framed by engaged Corinthian columns; flanking to right and left, lower Ionic colonnade; flanked at outer right and left by advanced section of wall with central blind niche, recessed panel above.

RAILINGS: spear-head finialled cast iron railings set on ashlar copes, running full length of Waterloo Place elevations.

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