Bold Bridge

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.