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chief object of this little work is to call public attention to the interesting Chapel on Wakefield Bridge, and this part of the title would more correctly have stood first, as the few preliminary Remarks on Wayside Chapels in general are merely introductory to a detailed account of this one in particular. The general subject of the chapels on bridges and by the side of highways, and, in many instances, the formation of those ways for the purposes of communication with the larger monasteries, is deserving of more careful investigation than it has hitherto received, as part of the history of the civilization of the country; the public are indebted to the Messrs. Buckler for the few scattered notices they have here thrown together, as forming a nucleus from which a more full and detailed history may hereafter be developed. The learned President of Trinity College, with the concurrence of the Oxford Architectural Society, has endeavoured to call attention to the ancient bridges that still remain, but of which all vestiges are but too likely to disappear in this age of rapid improvement of