Folly Bridge

Folly Bridge
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)
No. of spans	3
Piers in water	2
History
Designer	Ebenezer Perry
Opened	1827
Location

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

[1] River Thames Alliance. Bridge heights on the River Thames.

[hibbert-2] Hibbert, Christopher, ed. (1988). "Folly Bridge". The Encyclopaedia of Oxford. Macmillan. p. 144. ISBN 0-333-39917-X.

[3] Howard Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, 3rd ed., 1995 (Yale University Press), s.v. "Ebenezer Perry".

[4] 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.

[Thacker-5] Fred. S. Thacker The Thames Highway: Volume II Locks and Weirs 1920 — republished 1968 David & Charles

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