Abstract
Until the Reformation in the mid-16th century, many English bridges were adorned with a variety of symbols of Christian piety, including chapels, crosses, and statues, as a public reminder that building and maintaining bridges were considered pious and charitable deeds. Surviving examples of ecclesiastical bridge monuments are very rare in England and often poorly documented. Almost all examples of these relatively common medieval ecclesiastical monuments like wayside crosses appear to have been destroyed by iconoclasts during the Reformation. The rarity of these types of medieval ecclesiastical monuments has resulted in their underrepresentation in publications and HER data.
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