Grey Street Bridge
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| Coordinates | 27°28′06″S 153°00′56″E / 27.46845°S 153.015491°E |
| Carries | 4 lanes of vehicular traffic, two pedestrian paths |
| Crosses | Brisbane River |
| Locale | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Official name | William Jolly Bridge |
| Characteristics | |
| Design | Steel frame arch bridge |
| Total length | 500m |
| Longest span | Three main arches of 72m each |
| History | |
| Construction cost | ₤688,387 |
| Opened | 30 March 1932 |
| William Jolly Bridge | |
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 Location of William Jolly Bridge in Queensland
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| Location | Grey Street, Brisbane City, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°28′10″S 153°00′57″E / 27.4694°S 153.0159°ECoordinates: 27°28′10″S 153°00′57″E / 27.4694°S 153.0159°E |
| Design period | 1919 - 1930s (interwar period) |
| Built | 1928 - 1932 |
| Architect | A E Harding Frew |
| Official name: William Jolly Bridge, Grey Street Bridge | |
| Type | state heritage (built) |
| Designated | 6 August 1996 |
| Reference no. | 601694 |
| Significant period | 1920s, 1930s (fabric) |
| Significant components | pier/s (bridge), sculpture, wall/s - retaining, abutments - road bridge |
| Builders | M R Hornibrook Ltd |
The William Jolly Bridge is a heritage-listed road bridge over the Brisbane River between North Quay in Brisbane CBD and Grey Street in South Brisbane, within City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by A E Harding Frew and built from 1928 to 1932 by M R Hornibrook Ltd.
The style of the bridge's design is Art Deco, which was popular at the time. Manuel R. Hornibrook's company built the bridge that consists of two piers that were built in the river and two pylons on the river banks, which support three graceful arches. The rainbow arch type, as it was described, was claimed to be the first of its type in Australia. It is a steel frame arch bridge with an unusual concrete veneer, treated to make it appear like "light-coloured porphyry".
When opened, during the worst year of the Great Depression, the bridge was known simply as the Grey Street Bridge. It was renamed to the William Jolly Bridge on 5 July 1955 in memory of William Jolly, the first Lord Mayor of Greater Brisbane. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 6 August 1996.
The William Jolly Bridge was constructed between 1928 and 1932 following the formation of Greater Brisbane in 1925, and was one of the first major capital works of the new Brisbane City Council and bears the name of its first Mayor, William Jolly. At the time of construction, the only traffic bridge linking the Brisbane CBD and South Brisbane was the second Victoria Bridge, built in 1897 to replace an earlier bridge washed away in the flood of 1893. The William Jolly Bridge crosses the Brisbane River at the tip of the South Brisbane peninsula between Grey Street, South Brisbane, and at North Quay at the intersection of Skew and Saul Streets on the northern bank.
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