Bridgegate Cafe Chester

at , Chester , CH4 7 United Kingdom

1. Local Business

<p><b>Bridgegate</b> in <a href="/pages/w/105510322816238">Chester</a>, <a href="/pages/w/108731622484457">Cheshire</a>, England, forms part of the <a href="/pages/w/115465525137637">city walls</a>. It is designated by <a href="/pages/w/107611345934808">English Heritage</a> as a Grade I <a href="/pages/w/1413734828863883">listed building</a>.</p><h2>History</h2><p>The <a href="/pages/w/111777768834873">Roman</a> city walls were extended to the south in the 12th century with a wall parallel to the north bank of the <a href="/pages/w/160416944020310">River Dee</a>. This section of the wall incorporated the original Bridgegate which must have been built by the 1120s, as the office of sergeant of the gate was recorded in that decade. The gate guarded the southern entrance to the town; the road from North Wales ran through the gateway directly after crossing the Old Dee Bridge. It is possible that the gateway was rebuilt at the time the bridge was rebuilt in the later part of the 14th century. Between 1521 and 1624 the bridge tolls were controlled by the Talbot family, the <a href="/pages/w/112561828793330">Earls of Shrewsbury</a>, whose <a href="/pages/w/106107452761669">town house</a>, now the <a href="/pages/w/119740814738685">Bear and Billet</a>, was nearby.</p><p>At the end of the 15th century the bridge consisted of a <a href="/pages/w/104173006286712">Gothic</a> arch with a tower on each side. In 1600–01 a square tower was added which contained machinery for lifting river water into the town. This was known as John Tyrer's Water Tower, after its builder, but the tower was destroyed in the siege of Chester in 1644–65. The present bridge was built in 1781 for Chester City Corporation, the architect being <a href="/pages/w/200604090019137">Joseph Turner</a>.</p>

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Bridgegate Cafe Chester is Chester based place and this enity listed in Local Business category. CH4 7.