Bridge chapel

[1] These chapels were intended to minister to the spiritual needs of travellers passing over the bridge.Many were established as chantries, where a priest was employed to say masses for passers by and for the repose of the souls of the bridge's benefactors.In some instances, the priest would be responsible for collecting tolls from bridge users.[2] The cost of maintaining a priest or chaplain could be very high, so some less well endowed bridges had a resident hermit, whose duties, including collecting tolls and working on repairs, were regarded as acts of religious devotion.[3] In England, the end of these institutions came with the Reformation, when the Abolition of Chantries Acts, 1545 and 1547 led either to their demolition or to their conversion to secular use.
The 12th century Chapel of Saint Nicholas, built on a pier of the Pont Saint-Bénézet , Avignon
The Chapel of Our Lady of Rotherham Bridge in South Yorkshire
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