Hythe Bridge (Oxford)
From Graces Guide
This is a road bridge over a branch of the River Thames, having relatively shallow cast iron beams, with brick jack arches in between. The load-carrying capacity was inadequate for modern traffic, and its strength needed to be markedly increased. This was achieved in 1999 using an ingenious and completely unobtrusive solution using pre-stressed carbon fibre plates bonded to the underside of the beams[1]. Clamping plates for the carbon fibre reinforcement can be seen in photo 2.
The iron balustrades, and presumably the beams, were cast locally by W. Lucy and Co.
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