Saint Michael's Bridge, Dumfries is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 August 1987. Bridge.
Saint Michael's Bridge, Dumfries
- WRENN ID
- eastward-hall-azure
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 21 August 1987
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- NX 972 756
- Coordinates
- 55.06422, -3.60987
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Saint Michael's Bridge in Dumfries is a road bridge designed by engineer J B Brodie and built in 1927. It carries the A756 over the River Nith and features three segmental arches, along with a smaller pedestrian arch on the western bank. The bridge is constructed from reinforced concrete and is clad in red ashlar, which is mostly snecked and bull-faced, with polished voussoirs and parapet coping. There are pointed cutwaters on either side of the bridge, with carved panels above them, and the northern cutwaters are made of pink granite. The roadway and parapets slope from the western side to the lower eastern bank. Additionally, the bridge includes cast-iron lamp brackets and circular terminal piers with conical caps on the parapets, which curve outward at the eastern end.
Local climate
Saint Michael's Bridge, Dumfries sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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