Bridge Elvet is a medieval stone arch bridge over the river wear in Durham. It connects the Central area of the city with the district Elvet.

The construction of the bridge began in 1160, when Durham was ruled by the powerful Bishop Hugues de Puiseux, by whose order it was built many architectural structures across the North of England. The reason for building the bridge was a massive building taking place in the area Alot, but the bridge itself was built long enough, a little less than a hundred years. Arched bridge construction dated back to the XIII century, and only one was completed at the end of the XII century. A total of ten arches, however, the historians of the sixteenth century assumed that there were fourteen, and the four arches now hidden under the pavement of the streets of the district Elvet.

It should be noted that the bridge Elvet is not the first bridge of the city of Durham. According to the records of Durham Cathedral, dated XV century, the bridge built by Bishop Hugh de Puiseux, was named the New bridge, which suggests that there existed the Old bridge.

Bridge Elvet was restored at the beginning of the XVI and early XVII centuries. In 1771 a bridge was badly damaged due to the flooding, we had to reconstruct the three Central arches. Until 1805 the bridge reaches a width of 4, 5 meters, then it was expanded approximately one meter from its Northern side.

In the Middle ages the rise of the bridge stood the gate with towers, and at the bridge housed a number of buildings, including two chapels of St. James on the West end and St Andrew's on the East. It is believed that the chapel of St. Andrew was the size bigger than the other, but, in any case, only partially preserved buildings on the Eastern end of the bridge, on the part of the district Elvet. In 1632 on the site of the chapel of St. James was erected a house of correction, which was demolished in the eighteenth century, together with other buildings on the North side of the bridge.