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Glenside University Campus

Glenside University Campus, Blackberry Hill

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Mental hospital now University of the West of England Campus. 1861. By Henry Crisp. Subsequent additions by Crisp and Oatley. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1282398
Date first listed:: 24-Apr-1990
List Entry Name:: Glenside University Campus
Statutory Address:: Glenside University Campus, Blackberry Hill

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Reference:: IOE01/03192/27
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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1282398
Date first listed:: 24-Apr-1990
Date of most recent amendment:: 18-Dec-2007
List Entry Name:: Glenside University Campus
Statutory Address 1:: Glenside University Campus, Blackberry Hill

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Glenside University Campus, Blackberry Hill

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: ST6240076357

Details

Mental hospital now University of the West of England Campus. 1861. By Henry Crisp. Subsequent additions by Crisp and Oatley.

MATERIALS: Squared, snecked Pennant rubble with limestone dressings and slate hipped and gabled roofs, stone stacks with cornices.

PLAN: Pavilion plan with central administration block, rear recreation hall and additions to north and north-west.

EXTERIOR: Italianate style. The central administration block is three storey; five bay range with rusticated quoin stones, plat bands on each floor with deep corbelled eaves. Two storey canted bays either side of the central round-arched doorway. Plate-glass sash windows with segmental heads, round-arched on the middle of the first floor, with ovolo mouldings under the arches. Behind is the recreation hall, beneath a clock tower with clasping pilasters, three-light louvered belfry windows, clocks to each face and a shallow lead roof. Symmetrical wings of two storeys with central gables and a three-storey tower with pyramidal roofs. The projections end in gables flanked by squat towers; the inner ones have a central blind round arch, with segmental-headed ground-floor, and round-arched first-floor windows; the outer gables are similar but wider. Later blocks in a similar style.

The laundry and powerhouse block to the north-west is a two storey range which houses the steam engines to the ground floor and the laundry to the first floor. The tall square laundry chimney no longer survives.

INTERIOR: Recreation hall, now student dining room with barrel vaulted and coffered ceiling, balcony to west of hall supported on scrolled brackets. Stained glass stone mullioned windows to north and west. Coffered ceiling to most corridors, some hidden by suspended ceiling. Corridor to south wing has encaustic tiles to floor and glazed tiled wall. Library has coffered ceiling supported on slender Tuscan columns.

The steam engines to the powerhouse were manufactured by Bellis & Morcam of Birmingham and are a reciprocating steam self-generation power plant of a type once common throughout much of the NHS hospital sector and the British manufacturing industry more generally.

HISTORY: The Lunatic Asylums Act of 1845 made the erection of county pauper asylums compulsory and Bristol Lunatic Asylum (Glenside Hospital, now known as Glenside University Campus) is one of the 63 built between 1845 and 1888. Fishponds was approved as a site for a lunatic asylum in March 1857 and in 1858 works started on Henry Crisp's design. Bristol Lunatic Asylum opened in 1861, even though the building was not yet complete. The pavilion plan, a characteristic feature of asylum design by 1861, was later enlarged in stages by architects Henry Crisp and George Oatley and the spaces between the wings became enclosed gardens. The Asylum was nicknamed `The Lunatic Pauper Palace' because of the cost of the building and its architectural grandeur.

The steam engines within the powerhouse are dated to 1958 and 1960 and ceased operation in 1979.

SOURCES: First Edition Ordnance Survey map (1882); Second Edition Ordnance Survey map (1903); Third Edition Ordnance Survey map (1916); Fourth Edition Ordnance Survey map (1945)

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION DECISION: Glenside Hospital is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * A good example of a pavilion plan lunatic asylum * The principal rooms such as the recreation hall and library survive well and retain their original features such as coffered ceilings * Good group value with the Lower Lodge and Glenside Hospital Chapel, both listed at Grade II

Listing NGR: ST6240076357

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 378965
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.