Blackfriars
Bridge Apparently, Blackfriars
Bridge was first erected in 1761. The original
structure was a wooden footbridge accessed on the
Manchester side by a flight of twenty-nine steps down to
the bridge that was at the level of the Salford bank of
the Irwell. In 1817 the old bridge was taken down
and replaced by the stone one we see today. That
bridge was built between 1818 and 1820 to a design by
Thomas Wright. Pevsner described it as, "three
stately arches with coupled Ionic columns rising from
cutwaters."
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