Glengalla Bridge

Three-arch humpback road bridge over River Glengalla, built 1840, rebuilt 1936, incorporating fabric of earlier bridge, having round-headed arches and U-cutwaters upstream and downstream, and weir downstream. Mass concrete piers, walls, parapet walls and weir. Rusticated snecked stone wall to west end. Traces of formwork to soffits of arches. Carved limestone plaque to north parapet wall.

This bridge is an interesting example of the sculptural possibilities of concrete - the U-cutwaters are ostentatiously tall, the formwork to the soffits has left its mark, as has the timber shuttering used on the walls, making the concrete construction of the bridge apparent. The contrast of this candidly expressed poured concrete with the rusticated masonry of the older fabric of the bridge creates a pleasing contrast between nineteenth- and twentieth-century technology. Originally designed by Samuel Jones, the humpback form typical of his pattern book has been retained in the reconstruction.