Bold Bridge

Five-arched angled road bridge over the St Helens & Runcorn Gap Railway line, 1832, by Charles Blacker Vignoles.

The bridge has a main elliptical central arch, which is skewed and spans the former railway line. This main arch is flanked by two smaller arches on each side, which have been blocked up and are largely hidden from view by overgrown vegetation and earth bankings. All the arches have banded rustication, impost bands, shaped voussoirs and prominent keystones. Above the arches is a projecting carriageway band (designed like a stringcourse) and a low parapet composed of massive stone blocks with rounded copings and intermittent carved panelled pedestals. The bridge splays outwards at each end, with the parapets terminated by further carved panelled pedestals.