CHAPEL OF ST. CATHERINE on the Pont des Consuls at Montauban, 256.
CHAPEL OF ST. NICHOLAS on the Pont St. Bénézet at Avignon, 237.
CHAPEL OF ST. THOMAS À BECKET on Old London Bridge, 216-17.
CHAPELS ON BRIDGES, 82, 208, 209, 216-17, 218-19, 225-39, 241-6, 256.
CHARACTER, THE DRAMA OF, among the progenitors of Man, 115-19.
CHARACTER OF A GREAT BRIDGE, its principal traits, 15-16, 256-7,
320-8.
CHARING CROSS, THE RAILWAY VIADUCT FROM, disgraces the Thames, 256.
CHARITY, a Builder of Bridges in the Middle Ages, 251-2.
CHARLEMAGNE, his friendly attitude to roads and bridges, 26, 86-7.
CHARLES THE FIFTH, Emperor, in 1521, armed his troops with the
musket, 333.
CHARLES THE SECOND, routed at Worcester, fled by Old Pershore Bridge
into the Bredon Hills, 355.
CHÂTEAU-THIERRY, BRIDGE AT, built by Perronet, 338 _footnote_.
CHÂTELLERAULT, PONT HENRI IV AT, built by Androuet du Cerceau,
perhaps the latest fortified bridge in Europe, 331-2;
see also the colour plate facing page 332.
CHATSWORTH, A FINE BRIDGE AT, is troubled by pretence in decoration,
322.
CHAUCER, and Old Bow Bridge, 98, 99.
CHEESE AND CHICKENS, eaten by mediæval workmen who allowed their
bridge at Abingdon to be built by charity, 252 _footnote_.
CHENONCEAUX, THE NOBLE CASTLE OF, erected on bridges, 300.
CHESTER, the Old Dee Bridge, 258 _footnote_, and 305 _footnote_.
CHINA, STAIRCASE BRIDGE IN, 248.
CHINESE BRIDGES, 126, 145, 210, 211, 247-9, 291, 310-16, 344-8.
CHIPIEZ, his fine restoration of the doorway into the Treasury of
Atreus, 158.
CHO-GAN, THE BRIDGE OF, in China, 313.
CHOLLERFORD, near Hexham, its ruins of a Roman bridge, 173.
CHURCH, MEDIÆVAL, protected bridges, 40, 51, 96, 207;
see also “Bridge Chapels and Oratories,” “Bridge Crosses and
Crucifixes,” and “Indulgences.”
CHURCH, MEDIÆVAL, what England owed to her, 233.
CIRCLES AND CURVES AND ANGLES, their varied symbolism, 153-5.
CISTERCIANS, they introduced ribbed vaulting into the English
churches, 94-5;
so why not into bridges also as a development therefrom? 96;
Their bridges at Fountains Abbey, 96.
CITIZENSHIP, ENGLISH, in the Middle Ages, was often slack and
dishonest, 49-51;
the citizenship of mediæval bridges, which were connected in a
self-evident manner with all the principal motive-powers of
social life, 208, 209, 210 _et seq._
CIVILIZATIONS, their rival ideals tested and proved on stricken
fields, vii;
the five phases of their evolution, 22-3;
their social rule has differed deplorably from Nature’s social
order in her communities of living competitive cells, 18, 19,
25.
CLAIN, RIVER, AND ITS BRIDGE, see the illustration facing page 56.
CLAMPS, IRON, said to have been used in the bridge at Babylon, 274;
in Roman bridges, 172-3;
Perronet used them sometimes, 283.
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