[1] The Sherbourne Viaduct is located to the south east of Coventry city centre on the Birmingham Loop line on the route to Rugby.

The bridge has a cornice and string course decoration which, along with the arches, are dressed in ashlar.

[1] The viaduct was built in 1838 by Robert Stephenson, chief engineer to the London and Birmingham Railway.

[1][2] The Sherbourne Viaduct is one of several engineering works illustrated by John Cooke Bourne in his Series of Lithographic Drawings on the London and Birmingham Railway and was the subject of another lithograph 1839.

[1] Several other railway-related structures in Coventry were listed at the same time: (from east to west) the Sowe Viaduct, the portals of Humber Road Tunnel, and Mile Lane Bridge.