Queen's Bridge, Anne Street/ Bridge End, Belfast, Co Antrim

Queen's Bridge spans the River Lagan between Ann Street on the Co Antrim side and Bridge End on the Co Down side. This five-arch masonry bridge, built 1841–43, replaced the earlier Long Bridge which stood from 1688 to 1841.

The structure is constructed entirely in finely dressed Newry granite. The abutments are of dressed blocks laid to courses with quarter-round quoins and deep moulded copings. Flanking them are pilastered buttresses of vee-jointed blocks in regular courses, topped with ornate cornices. Wing walls curve outward from the abutments to finish in bracketed terminals at the footpath railings.

The piers are of granite blockwork continuing outward to form rounded cutwaters. A string course of rusticated blocks with tooled margins runs along the piers at spring level and around the tops of the cutwaters. The cutwaters are surmounted by pairs of original partly-attached clustered columns, which later served to support cantilevered footpaths; their cornices match those on the abutment pilasters.

All five arches are of identical size and segmental profile, with vee-jointed voussoirs and masonry blockwork soffits. The spandrels are vee-jointed and regularly coursed, step-jointed into the voussoirs. The navigable channel is the second arch from the Co Down side, marked by a large arrow attached to the crown of its arch.

The parapets comprise metal lattice girders with a wide metal handrail across their tops. The girders are cantilevered from riveted metal beams supported on the abutment pilasters and cutwater columns. Metal brackets attached to the base of the downstream parapet carry pipes; additional piping in a metal conduit runs along the upstream parapet. The line of handrails is interrupted at regular intervals by hollow metal pedestals embellished with the Belfast Corporation's coat of arms. Recessed panels on the pedestals read "Widened/ 1885", and the pedestals bear the maker's mark "Gregg, Sons & Phenix/ Iron Founders/ Belfast".

Sixteen cast-iron lamp standards crown these pedestals, arranged as eight per side (six over the piers, two over the abutments, two at the wing wall terminals). The standards were originally gas lit but are now electrified. Each is wrapped at its base with four intertwined scaled fish and carries the maker's name "Geo. Smith & Co Sun Foundry Glasgow". Three tall electric lamps run along each side in addition. The flat deck carries four lanes of traffic and a footpath along each side, with pedestrian and vehicular traffic separated by a modern single-bar tubular metal railing on cast-metal posts mounted on a dwarf concrete wall.

The downstream approach at the Co Down end is bounded by a continuation of parapet railing over a low squared rubble granite sidewall, terminating in a pedestal without lamp standard. Two additional identical pedestals without standards form piers for a wrought-iron gate which formerly gave access to steps (now removed) down to the former Queen's Quay, now cut off from the rest by the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge. The upstream approach from the Co Down end is bounded by a plain regularly coursed granite block wall with a terminal pier carrying a rectangular bronze plaque commemorating the opening of the Laganside Walkway on 4 June 1992. A ramp descends to the walkway along the river's edge. A circular plaque at this end notes the bridge's construction in 1841–43. The upstream approach on the Co Antrim side comprises a short length of granite walling, truncated to facilitate access to a paved area over what was originally Canal Quay. The downstream approach wall on the Co Antrim side has been removed to provide access to a walkway along the former Donegall Quay. At each end of the downstream side, a wide flight of stone steps descends from the quayside walkways to the water's edge.

The bridge is bounded at both ends by walkways along former quays. The Queen Elizabeth II Bridge lies a short distance downstream. On the corner of the upstream approach on the Co Antrim side stands a 19.5-metre-high stainless steel and bronze sculpture entitled "Harmony of Belfast" (also known as "Angel of Harmony", "Nuala with the Hula" and "Thing with the Ring"), created by Scottish artist Andy Scott and erected in 2007.