Vignoles Bridge is a footbridge over the River Sherbourne in Spon End, a western suburb of Coventry in central England.
Many cast-iron bridges in this style were built and became common on canals around Birmingham and the wider West Midlands.
[1][2] The bridge spans the River Sherbourne in the middle of a housing estate in the Spon End area, just west of Coventry city centre and just outside the inner ring road.
[2] Thomas Telford developed the first techniques for maximising the potential of cast iron as a construction material, realising that the lighter frames could use flatter angles and less substantial foundations than timber bridges while preserving the single span, and thus the navigability of the waterways they cross.
The bridge was designed by the engineer Charles Blacker Vignoles and cast at Horseley Iron Works in 1835.