Bonnington Bridge carries Newhaven Road, ZC6 (Edinburgh), across the Water of Leith in the Bonnington district of Edinburgh. The bridge was built in 1902-3, and paid for jointly by the Edinburgh and Leith authorities. Despite its comparatively recent date, the bridge seems to reflect a style popular over half a century earlier, namely a neo-classical look.
The bridge is a single span stone arch which is little different to thousands of bridges built throughout the Victorian era, however it is the parapet which has the classical style, with a very elegant baluster either side of a central date stone. These are, however, no ordinary date stones, as they rise like miniature temples from the pavements, corbelled out over the river, and topped with pediments. They even look out of place against the fairly normal terminal piers at the north end of the bridge - to the south the piers mark the end of the bridge, but a solid parapet continues for some distance along the approach. Hidden under this approach is a second arch, which spans a former mill lade, but is now dry.
There is some evidence that the present bridge replaces an earlier structure, however no details have yet been discovered.
