Prince Of Wales Bridge, Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 May 1986. Bridge.

Prince Of Wales Bridge, Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow

WRENN ID
buried-buttress-curlew
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 May 1986
Type
Bridge
OS grid reference
NS 571 664
Coordinates
55.8704, -4.28454
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Prince of Wales Bridge, built around 1894, is a park bridge featuring a single depressed arch that spans the River Kelvin. It is faced with red ashlar stone, with channelled voussoirs, abutments, and pilasters flanking the arch. The bridge has ornately carved spandrels that display the City of Glasgow crest. It features a shallow ramped wide roadway and a polished pink granite parapet that is balustraded over the arch, while the approaches are plain and widely curved. The die pedestals made of granite sit over the pilasters and support decorative cast-iron lamp brackets. The soffit of the bridge is constructed of red brick.

Local climate

Prince Of Wales Bridge, Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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