Pulteney Bridge - the bridge over the River Avon in the English city of Bath. It was built in 1773 and is under state protection as a monument of architecture.

In the world there are only four of the bridge, where the shops are located on both sides of the coast-to-coast, Pulteney Bridge - one of them. It is named after Frances Pulteney, heiress Batvik manor, located on the other side of the Avon, opposite Bata. It was an ordinary village, but her husband, Francis, William, decided to turn it into a modern village, a suburb of Bata. And above all he needed was a bridge that would connect the two cities. For his idea of ​​a new bridge, William turned to the architect brothers Robert and James Adam. Robert carried away building a new bridge, and he turned the simple project of Pulteney in an exquisite structure with rows of shops on either side of the bridge. Adam was in Italy, and its design was influenced by the Ponte Vecchio bridge and the Ponte Rialto - especially of the project Ponte Rialto, which has not been implemented.

In the form in which it was created, Adam, Pulteney Bridge lasted only twenty years. In 1792 the appearance of facades suffered due to the expansion of stores, and the floods in 1799 and 1800 destroyed the northern end of the bridge. In the XIX century the owners of shops and their homes completely reworked in his own way, and one of the houses at the southern end of the bridge was demolished altogether.

In 1936, the bridge has been listed in the list of architectural monuments, and began the restoration of the original appearance of the facade. The works were largely completed by the British festival in 1951. Now Pulteney Bridge - one of the most famous attractions of Bath, famous for its architectural masterpieces of Georgian style. In recent years, the city council discussed plans to ban traffic on the bridge and turning it into a pedestrian zone.