A few months later on 18 June 1827 the "Reading Mercury" noted that "the Substantial Stone Bridge over the River Thames at Shillingford has for a long time been sufficiently complete for the passage of travellers and their carriages and it will very shortly be finished in all its ornamental parts". The new bridge was entirely made of stone with three semi-circular river spans, the middle one wide and the flanking pair each. On the Oxfordshire (north) bank was a small tow-path arch and a causeway. The toll-keeper's cottage was located on the downstream side of the Oxfordshire bank.