A tiny Gothic chapel built directly onto the eastern parapet of the medieval bridge over the River Calder, the Chantry Chapel of St Mary the Virgin is one of the most remarkable pieces of surviving medieval architecture in Wakefield and a Grade I listed building. The west front, a small Decorated piece with five sculpted figures of Christ and the apostles, was so heavily eroded by the nineteenth century that a replica was made and the originals removed; they are now displayed in Kettlethorpe Hall.
Inside, the chapel is small enough that a dozen people fill it. It still hosts occasional services. The bridge it sits on is itself fourteenth-century, with cutwaters scored by the river — a place where the sheer continuity of English urban history becomes briefly tangible.