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CHAPEL ON WAKEFIELD BRIDGE,

YORKSHIRE.

THIS Chapel is nearly entire: it is ten yards long and six wide: the west front is divided by buttresses, into compartments, with arches in relief; their spandrils richly flowered, and over each compartment five shorter ones, with historical subjects in bass-relief, which are supposed to allude to the occasion of erecting the Chapel. The first is broken, in the second is a woman reclined, lamenting, a youth at her feet sits wringing his hands ; in the third, two youths kneel, praying by the side of a woman in the same attitude; in the fourth, a group of figures, obscure; in the fifth, a man sitting, another standing before him, and an embattled building. The buttresses are beautifully carved, and each was crowned with a rich fynial. The north and south windows have rich tracery.

This Chapel, which stands partly on the bridge and partly on the sterlings, was lately a warehouse for hemp, and has been used for various purposes, that have of late years much damaged it. It is said to have been built by Edward IV. in memory of his father; but this king seems to have been rather the repairer, or rebuilder, than the founder of this Chapel, for it appears by the

CHAPEL ON WAKEFIELD BRIDGE.

charter of 31 Edward III. dated at Wakefield, that he, by that instrument, settled £10 per annum on William Kaye and William Bull, and their successors, for ever, to perform divine service in a Chapel of St. Mary, newly built on the bridge at Wakefield. A chantry for two priests in this Chapel was valued, at the suppression, at £14: 15:31.

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Heath Hall,
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Published for the Proprietors, by W. Clarke, New Bond Street, and J.Carpenter, Bond Street, March 10.

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