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. Beyond there is a glimpse of the green-edged Southwark Bridge . In the hazy distance are the towers of Canary Wharf , dominated by the pyramidal-topped tower of 1 Canada Square ]] Blackfriars Bridge is a road and foot traffic bridge over the River Thames in London , between Waterloo Bridge and Blackfriars Railway Bridge . The north end is near the Inns Of Court , and Temple Church , along with Blackfriars Station . The south end is near the Tate Modern art gallery and the Oxo Tower . The first fixed crossing at Blackfriars was a 995-foot (303 m) long Toll Bridge designed in an Italianate style by Robert Mylne and constructed with nine semi-elliptical arches of Portland stone. Beating designs by John Gwynn and George Dance , it took nine years to build, opening to the public in 1769 . It was originally named ''William Pitt Bridge'' (after the Prime Minister William Pitt ) but was soon renamed after Blackfriars Monastery, a Dominican Priory which once stood nearby. The current bridge was completed in 1869 and consists of five wrought iron arches built to a design by Joseph Cubitt . It is owned and maintained by Bridge House Estates , a charitable trust overseen by the Corporation Of London . Due to the volume of traffic over the bridge, it was widened between 1907 – 10 , from 70 feet (21 m) to its present 105 feet (32 m). The bridge became internationally notorious in 1982 , when the Italian banker Roberto Calvi was found hanged below one of its arches in what was originally believed to be a suicide, but is now officially regarded as a murder. POPULAR CULTURE Blackfriars Bridge was named as the home of an unknown order of monks who held the key to an angelic prison in Neil Gaiman 's Neverwhere . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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