Folly Bridge | |
|---|---|
 Folly Bridge from downstream. | |
| Coordinates | 51°44′46″N 1°15′24″W / 51.746027°N 1.256542°W |
| Crosses | River Thames |
| Locale | Oxford |
| Heritage status | Grade II listed |
| Characteristics | |
| Material | Stone |
| Height | 10 feet 3 inches (3.12 m)[1] |
| No. of spans | 3 |
| Piers in water | 2 |
| History | |
| Designer | Ebenezer Perry |
| Opened | 1827 |
| Location | |
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Folly Bridge is a stone bridge over the River Thames carrying the Abingdon Road south from the centre of Oxford, England.[2] It was erected in 1825–27, to designs of a little-known architect, Ebenezer Perry (died 1850), who practised in London.[3]
The bridge is in two parts separated by an island. The origin of the name is uncertain[4] although it has been suggested that it originated about 1650 after a tenant of Bacon's study.[5]
- ^ River Thames Alliance. Bridge heights on the River Thames.
- ^ Hibbert, Christopher, ed. (1988). "Folly Bridge". The Encyclopaedia of Oxford. Macmillan. p. 144. ISBN 0-333-39917-X.
- ^ Howard Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, 3rd ed., 1995 (Yale University Press), s.v. "Ebenezer Perry".
- ^ The Gentleman's Magazine, August 1829:105, which gave an engraving of the old bridge and the tower reputed to contain the study of Roger Bacon.
- ^ Fred. S. Thacker The Thames Highway: Volume II Locks and Weirs 1920 — republished 1968 David & Charles