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Chantry Chapel of St Mary the Virgin, Wakefield

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and members of St Andrew's Church to raise funds to repair the chapel roof and re-point the stonework. A programme of conservation work has since been carried out with the approval of English Heritage. The work included roof repairs, re-wiring and the installation of heating. Renewal to the external
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and services were held irregularly. St Mary's merged with St Andrew's, Eastmoor in the 1960s and the impoverished parish struggled with the chapel's upkeep. In the 1980s it seemed likely the chapel would be declared redundant by the Church of England. In January 2000 a parish boundary change brought
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when all Wakefield's four chantry chapels were closed. The bridge chapel survived because it is a structural element of the bridge. After closure it was used as a warehouse, library, office and cheese shop and survived bridge widening in 1758 and 1797. The bridge and its chapel were painted by
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and Canon Bryan Ellis allowed their features to be sculpted by stonemason John Schofield. The fifth head is that of a founder of the Friends, Ray Perraudin, and the sixth one of Anelay's workmen. The friends have conserved the internal stone heads whose age is unknown.
362:, where it became the frontage to a folly boathouse. In 1996, the remains of the boathouse were removed from the grounds of Kettlethorpe Hall by Wakefield Council, who put it into storage. In 2014, they were erected in 283:'s Chantry Chapel, on the York road, was near Clarke Hall. In the 14th century the Chantry Chapel of St Mary the Virgin was built on the medieval bridge across the River Calder on the road to Doncaster and the south. 1450: 394:
The chapel which projects to the east side of the bridge is built into on a small island in the river and its base is a structural element of the bridge. It is rectangular in plan and was built of
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stonework cost £30,000 in a project by William Anelay Ltd. Six new carved stone heads were made for the south side of the building. At the suggestion of architect David Greenwood, the
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Wakefield's medieval nine-arched bridge is 320 feet (98 m) long, was built in stone between 1342 and 1356. It replaced an earlier wooden structure on the site of an ancient
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possibly from a quarry at Goodybower. The chapel measures 50 feet (15 m) by 25 feet (8 m). It measures 36 feet (11 m) to the top of the
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Wakefield had four chantry chapels, three of which dated from the 13th century. They were built outside the medieval town on the roads leading to
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at either end and has three narrow doorways. Its façade is divided into five elaborately carved panels. The panels originally represented the
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The chapel was transferred to the Church of England in 1842 and the Yorkshire Architectural Society, influenced by the
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of the newly formed ecclesiastical district of St Mary until a church was built in 1854. The bridge chapel became a
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The "Friends of Wakefield Chantry Chapel" was formed in 1991 by members of the Wakefield Historical Society,
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stone, which crumbled in the polluted urban atmosphere and was completely replaced in 1939 in
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when it was restored. There are three bays with square-headed windows with "flamboyant"
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windows have stained glass, the east window, two south windows and one north window.
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at the eastern end. The chapel is at street level and has a lower chamber, the
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and at the north-eastern corner there is a small embattled octagonal
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staircase leads to the roof. A staircase also descends to a small
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with a small bell tower, which originally contained two bells.
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Warburton, Malcolm; Taylor, Kate (2006), Sue Robinson (ed.),
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was fought about a mile south of the bridge in 1460 and the
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where it crossed the Ings Beck on the road to Dewsbury.
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was killed near the bridge while attempting to escape.
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Wakefield
West Yorkshire
England
53°40′34″N 1°29′20″W / 53.676°N 1.489°W / 53.676; -1.489
Listed Building
Chantry Chapel of St Mary the Virgin, Wakefield is located in West Yorkshire
chantry chapel
Wakefield
West Yorkshire
Listed building
English Heritage
medieval
Chantry Bridge
River Calder
bridge chapels
St Ives
Rotherham
Derby
Bradford-on-Avon
scheduled ancient monument

Samuel Hieronymus Grimm
Leeds
Dewsbury
York
Doncaster
St John the Baptist
Northgate
St Mary Magdalene

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