Bristol North Baths
BRISTOL NORTH BATHS, GLOUCESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187218
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Bristol North Baths
- Statutory Address:
- BRISTOL NORTH BATHS, GLOUCESTER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187218
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Bristol North Baths
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRISTOL NORTH BATHS, GLOUCESTER ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BRISTOL NORTH BATHS, GLOUCESTER ROAD
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:
- ST 59003 75271
Details
BRISTOL
ST5975 GLOUCESTER ROAD, Bishopston 901-1/32/406 (West side) Bristol North Baths
II
Swimming pool. c1912. Red brick with limestone dressings and a slate hipped roof. Open plan. Edwardian Baroque style. 2 storeys; 3-window range. Central portico with octagonal shafts to domed pinnacles flanking an elliptical-arched opening with square responds and a moulded archivolt. Set within it are 2 pairs of half-glazed doors with Art Nouveau handles. BRISTOL NORTH BATHS in relief above, and a balustraded balcony with a pedimented panel carrying the city's motto. Ashlar central section, a round-arched window set back behind a similar arch on coupled Doric responds, and pilasters either side to a cornice and balustrade, and a central bracketed gable with moulded strings. Mullion and transom windows with cyma mouldings and steel glazing bars, linked by string and sill courses, and scrolled, pedimented panels above the ground floor ones. Octagonal towers broken forward at the corners capped by leaded cupolas with round-arched louvred lights. At the rear is a tall round chimney with moulded ashlar string and cap. INTERIOR: entrance hall with 4 three-quarter Doric columns, pink granite shafts and grey granite pedestals, linked by elliptical arches, and an imperial stair; panelled dado. The pool has a gallery on 3 sides on cast-iron shafts and open scrolled brackets, salt-glazed tiles, and a glazed, steel truss roof bearing on pilasters. A complete public baths with considerable architectural attention to both the front and inside. Original facilities included that of flooring the pool and using the baths as a cinema. (Loxton S L: Loxton's Bristol, 2nd ed: Bristol: 1992-).
Listing NGR: ST5900375271
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379606
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Loxton, SL, Loxtons Bristol, (1992)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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