St Andrew's Suspension Bridge, Glasgow Green, Glasgow is a Grade A listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 March 1992. Bridge. 2 related planning applications.

St Andrew's Suspension Bridge, Glasgow Green, Glasgow

WRENN ID
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Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow East MP: John Grady (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
23 March 1992
Type
Bridge
OS grid reference
NS 599 640
Coordinates
55.84882, -4.23838
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Andrew's Suspension Bridge, located in Glasgow Green, was designed by Neil Robson and Charles O'Neill and constructed between 1853 and 1855. This pedestrian suspension bridge features cast-iron pylons adorned with paired Corinthian columns. It has flat link chains and a lattice girder span, with iron railings at each end.

Local climate

St Andrew's Suspension Bridge, Glasgow Green, Glasgow sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 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 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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