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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.
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Animation showing the operation of a drawbridge. A drawbridge or draw-bridge is a type of moveable bridge typically at the entrance to a castle or tower surrounded by a moat.In some forms of English, including American English, the word drawbridge commonly refers to all types of moveable bridges, such as bascule bridges, vertical-lift bridges and swing bridges, but this article concerns the ...
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The stone bridge was constructed from limestone and sandstone in 1325, with six visible barrel arches ranging from 5.5 m (18 ft 1 in) to 8 m (26 ft 3 in) wide. [3] The section of the bridge supported by the six arches is 79 m (259 ft 2 in; 86 yd 1 ft) long. [4] Wooden stalls were built on top of the stone bridge for trading goods. [5]
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A corbel arch (or corbeled / corbelled arch) is an arch-like construction method that uses the architectural technique of corbeling to span a space or void in a structure, such as an entranceway in a wall or as the span of a bridge.