SM Adam volume 10/81

[7] Preliminary design for the New Town looking towards the river, 1782

Elevation and section of the New Town looking towards the river, with a section of Pulteney Bridge shown at the centre, including a section of each of the two domed and pedimented end pavilions. The bridge is flanked by links which are composed of a central one-and-a-half-storey arched gateway, with a tapering staircase, flanked by paired Doric columns, and surmounted by sculpted trophies. The gateway is flanked by single-storey, single-bay balustraded links, containing oculus windows within relieving arches; and beyond are projecting three-bay blocks which also have an oculus window within a relieving arch in each bay, but the central bay is surmounted by an octagonal attic with a pyramidal roof and a tripartite window. Beyond these link sections there are two-and-a-half-storey twenty-nine-bay blocks with a balustraded roofline; with an arcaded ground storey, containing thermal windows in the upper portion of the arches; and with every fourth bay slightly projecting, and containing a door on the ground storey, articulated by Doric pilasters in the first and second storeys, and surmounted by an urn; and the central bay of the block is surmounted by a domed clock tower