1764 Trinity College Bridge

The current bridge was built by James Essex 1764-1765. It replaced a previous stone bridge of 1651-52. Materials of the old bridge were used in the new sub-structure, with Portland and Ketton stone ashlar above water-level. It is characteristically different from St John's Bridge, which was built just down the river 60 years earlier.

Essex was also responsible for the building of the Mathematical Bridge, and one of the old Garret Hostel Bridges.

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