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The St Ives settlement was developed by the monks of Ramsey Abbey who built the town's first bridge, a wooden structure, in 1107. In 1414 it was decided to replace this bridge with a stone arch bridge, which was completed in 1425, adding the bridge chapel dedicated to St Leger [4] in 1426. [4]
The Town Bridge, Bradford-on-Avon, England, a medieval chapel later rebuilt as a lock up; Old Exe Bridge, Exeter, England, St Edmund on the Bridge; built c. 1200, rebuilt 1833 and demolished 1973 except the medieval tower. St Mary's Bridge Chapel, Derby, England; late 13th century, restored in 1930 as a place of worship
The Pont-Saint-Esprit bridge originally had 20 arches and a length of 900 m (980 yd). Although now somewhat modified, the medieval bridge has survived until the present day. [31] The Chapel of Saint Nicholas and the four remaining arches were listed as a Monument historique in 1840. [32]
Many of the houses were later merged, into 91. In the seventeenth century, almost all had four or five storeys. All the houses were shops, and the bridge was one of the City of London's four or five main shopping streets. The three major buildings on the bridge were the chapel, the drawbridge tower and the stone gate.
It is the only statue of Cromwell in England that was funded by public donations. The statue has been described as the "...second most visited and photographed monument" in St Ives after the town's bridge chapel on the St Ives Bridge dedicated to St Ledger. [5] The statue was unveiled on 23 October 1901 by the Liberal politician Lord Edmond ...
When Saint Guthlac died in 714 A.D., he was already famous for his choice to give up a “life of riches” for years of solitude as a Christian monk.
St Ives is a medieval market town and civil parish in the Huntingdonshire district in Cambridgeshire, England, [3] 5 miles (8 km) east of Huntingdon and 12 miles (19 km) north-west of Cambridge. St Ives is historically in the county of Huntingdonshire.
St Ives Bridge; W. Wolverton Viaduct This page was last edited on 30 September 2017, at 18:33 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...