Key facts
- Carries
- A202 road
- Crosses
- River Thames
- Locale
- London
- Maintained by
- Transport for London
- Heritage status
- Grade II* listed
- Preceded by
- Grosvenor Railway Bridge
- Followed by
- Lambeth Bridge
- Design
- Arch bridge
- Material
- Steel and granite
- Total length
- 809 feet (247 m)
- Width
- 80 feet (24 m)
- Clearance below
- 39 feet 9 inches (12.1 m) at lowest astronomical tide
- Designer
- Sir Alexander Binnie , Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice
- Opened
- 26 May 1906 ; 120 years ago ( 1906-05-26 )
- Replaces
- Regent Bridge (Old Vauxhall Bridge) 1816–98
- Daily traffic
- 50,533 vehicles (2004)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- London Borough of Lambeth
- Material used
- steel
- Image
- Vauxhall Bridge 2009.jpg
- Length
- 270
Show 7 more facts
- number of spans
- 5
- crosses
- River Thames
- Commons category
- Vauxhall Bridge
- date of official opening
- 1906-05-26
- next crossing upstream
- Grosvenor Bridge
- next crossing downstream
- Lambeth Bridge
- inception
- 1816-00-00
Sources (5)
via Wikidata · CC0
~21 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Vauxhall Bridge is a Grade II* listed steel and granite deck arch bridge in central London. It crosses the River Thames in a southeast–northwest direction between Vauxhall on the south bank and Pimlico on the north bank. Opened in 1906, it replaced an earlier bridge, originally known as Regent Bridge but later renamed Vauxhall Bridge, built between 1809 and 1816 as part of a scheme for redeveloping the south bank of the Thames. The bridge was built at a location in the river previously served by a ferry.
The building of both iterations of the bridge was problematic, with both the first and second bridges requiring several redesigns from multiple architects. The original bridge, the first iron bridge over the Thames, was built by a private company and operated as a toll bridge before being taken into public ownership in 1879. The second bridge, which took eight years to build, was the first in London to carry trams and later one of the first two roads in London to have a bus lane.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vauxhall Bridge” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
Available in 29 languages
- Español
- Français
- Deutsch
- 中文
- 日本語
- Русский
- Italiano
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Basque
- Belarusian
- Central Kurdish
- Czech
- Danish
- Egyptian Arabic
- Hebrew
- Marathi
- Nederlands
- Norwegian
via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0