Wakefield Bridge and Chantry Chapel, Wakefield, Yorkshire. UK
N 53° 40.603 W 001° 29.376
30U E 599768 N 5948613
Blue Plaque, Wakefield Bridge and Chantry Chapel.
Waymark Code: WMV3Y0
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 02/19/2017
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"Stone bridge, built soon after 1342, replaced an earlier bridge over the River Calder.
The packhorse bridge was added in 1730.
The Chantry Chapel of St Mary was built between 1342 and 1356 and is one of only four bridge chapels still surviving in England.
It was restored in 1847 and again more recently."
In 1995 major roof repairs were carried out, and the building was re-wired and new lighting and heating systems were installed.
Recently the interior has undergone substantial reordering with the removal of pew platforms, a new stone floor and new seating.
It is the only survivor of four chantries in Wakefield and the oldest and most ornate of the surviving bridge chapels in England,
Others are at St Ives, Cambridgeshire, Rotherham and Bradford-on-Avon.
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