Bold Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the St. Helens local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 April 2016. Bridge.
Bold Bridge
- WRENN ID
- low-gateway-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St. Helens
- Constituency
- St Helens South and Whiston MP: Ms Marie Rimmer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 April 2016
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Bold Bridge, Nr Bold Bridge Cottages, Halton, WA8 3UR
- OS grid reference
- SJ 523 894
- Coordinates
- 53.39971, -2.718
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bold Bridge is a five-arched angled road bridge built in 1832 by Charles Blacker Vignoles, spanning the St Helens & Runcorn Gap Railway line. The bridge features a main elliptical central arch that is skewed and spans the former railway line. On each side of this central arch are two smaller arches that have been blocked up and are mostly obscured by overgrown vegetation and earth bankings. All the arches display banded rustication, impost bands, shaped voussoirs, and prominent keystones. Above the arches, there is a projecting carriageway band that resembles a stringcourse, along with a low parapet made of large stone blocks with rounded copings and intermittent carved panelled pedestals. The bridge flares outwards at each end, with the parapets ending in additional carved panelled pedestals.
Local climate
Bold Bridge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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