The following are to be the dimensions of the new bridge:—
Centre arch—span, 150 feet; rise, 32 feet; piers, 24 feet.
Arches next the centre arch—span, 140 feet; rise, 30 feet; piers 22 feet.
Abutment arches—span, 130 feet; rise, 25 feet; abutment, 74 feet.
Total width, from water-side to water-side, 690 feet.
Length of the bridge, including the abutments, 950 feet; without the abutments, 782 feet.
Width of the bridge, from outside to outside of the parapets, 55 feet; carriage-way, 33 feet 4 inches.
“Go and set London-bridge on fire,” said Jack Cade, at least so Shakspeare makes him say, to “the rest” of the insurgents, who, in the reign of Henry VI., came out of Kent, took the city itself, and there raised a standard of revolt against the royal authority. “Sooner said than done, master Cade,” may have been the answer; and now, when we are about to erect a new one, let us “remember the bridge that has carried safe over.” Though its feet were manifold as a centipede’s, and though, in gliding between its legs, as it
“doth bestride the Thames,”