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Latitude: 56.9952 / 56°59'42"N
Longitude: -4.1804 / 4°10'49"W
OS Eastings: 267633
OS Northings: 791454
OS Grid: NN676914
Mapcode National: GBR JB17.9TP
Mapcode Global: WH4JT.RFHQ
Plus Code: 9C8QXRW9+3R
Entry Name: Crubenmore Bridge
Listing Name: Crubenmore Bridge
Listing Date: 11 July 2007
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 399555
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB50910
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200399555
Location: Laggan
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Badenoch and Strathspey
Parish: Laggan
Traditional County: Inverness-shire
Tagged with: Road bridge Architectural structure
Sir Owen Williams (engineer) with Maxwell Ayrton (architect), 1925-26. Two-arched, reinforced concrete Modern Movement style 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.
Sir Owen Williams, one of the most celebrated engineers of the modern movement era of design, was commissioned to design a number of landmark bridges along the route of the A9 road in the Highlands, working with the architect Maxwell Ayrton. Designed and built between 1924 and 1928, the bridges combine imaginative aesthetics with innovative structural design in reinforced concrete. The bridges were cast in-situ, which adds to their historic significance.
The faceted sides of this bridge (together with William's other A9 bridges at Loch Alvie and Dalnamein (small
may have been influenced by the Cubist movement, although there were also practical reasons for casting the concrete in this way. Williams is thought to have conceived these bridges to resemble alien forms within the landscape, yet having aged and weathered the bridges now blend quite naturally with their surroundings.
There were eight bridges by Williams on the A9, the others being a near-identical twin arch-bridge at Loch Alvie, larger bridges at Dalmein, over the Spey near Newtonmore, and over the Findhorn at Tomatin, and a small single-span bridge also at Dalnamein (all listed seperately). Small bridges at Aviemore and Brora have been remodelled and remain unlisted.
The bridge is situated in Glen Truim, on the old course of the A9 to the South of the falls of Truim. It is in a poor state of repair.
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