Blackfriars Bridge Apparently, Blackfriars Bridge
was first erected in
1761. The original structure was a wooden footbridge accessed on
the
Manchester side by a flight of twenty-nine steps down to the bridge
that was at the level of the Salford bank of the Irwell. In 1817
the old bridge
was taken down and replaced by the stone one we see today. That
bridge was
built between 1818 and 1820 to a design by Thomas Wright. Pevsner
described it as, "three stately arches with coupled Ionic columns
rising from cutwaters."
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