Central Police Station
CENTRAL POLICE STATION, NELSON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187226
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Central Police Station
- Statutory Address:
- CENTRAL POLICE STATION, NELSON STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187226
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1981
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Central Police Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- CENTRAL POLICE STATION, NELSON STREET
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:
- CENTRAL POLICE STATION, NELSON STREET
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 58936 73265
Details
BRISTOL
ST5873SE NELSON STREET, Broadmead 901-1/11/487 (East side) 18/05/81 Central Police Station (Formerly Listed as: BRIDEWELL STREET Central Police Station and Bristol Police Headquarters)
GV II
Police station. Dated 1928 on hoppers. By Ivor Jones and Percy Thomas. Limestone ashlar, roof not visible. Axial plan with wings at each end. Stripped Neo-Georgian style with Mannerist detail. 2 storeys; 12-window range. A near-symmetrical front has curved ends and short returns, with a fluted frieze and parapet, the centre raised and set forward with a central scroll inscribed Bristol Police Station. Large central Mannerist doorway set in a semicircular-arched recess, has a moulded architrave with Gibbs blocks and 5 massive stepped keys, to double 24-panel studded doors, with a fanlight above. Plain windows with metal glazing bars, windowless first floor to the left; 7-window right-hand return. INTERIOR not inspected. To the same design as the Police Headquarters (qv). (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 422; City Building Series: Burrough T H B: Bristol: London: 1970-: 128).
Listing NGR: ST5893673265
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380015
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 422
Burrough, T H B, City Building in Bristol, (1970), 128
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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