Vignoles Bridge

Vignoles Bridge is a scheduled monument in the City of Coventry in the West Midlands of England. The bridge is a single-span iron footbridge over the River Sherbourne in the Spon End area, just to the west of Coventry city centre and 100 metres west-north-west of Sherbourne House .
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. English Heritage, which is responsible for scheduling ancient monuments in England, considers all examples of iron bridges "which retain significant original fabric" to be of importance. Vignoles Bridge is of particular interest because it "survives well and retains its original features thus demonstrating its engineering design and reflecting the manufacturing process", despite having been moved from its original site.

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