Chapel of Saint Nicholas

One of four surviving bridge chapels in England, the small chantry chapel was dedicated to Saint Nicholas. The 13th century bridge was built for horse traffic and widened in the 17th century. By the 1700s the chapel had been turned into a jail, known as 'the blind house' by the 1700s. The drunks held in the lockup were known as being "under the fish and over the water." The gudgeon (fish) on the weather vane is a Christian symbol dating from the time of the chapel.