LOWER ARCADE
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1202024
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER ARCADE, 1-36, BROADMEAD
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER ARCADE, 1-36, BROADMEAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 59085 73372
Details
BRISTOL
ST5973 BROADMEAD, Broadmead
901-1/40/479 (North side)
08/01/59 Nos.1-36 (Consecutive)
Lower Arcade
GV II*
Arcade. 1824-5. By Foster and Oakley. Limestone and Pennant
ashlar. Single-depth plan shops flanking an axial arcade.
Greek Revival style. Each shop of 2 storeys; 2-window range.
Broadmead front has a Pennant plinth below fluted Ionic
columns in antis; pilasters flank plate-glass shop fronts
either side, below panels, entablature with a dentil cornice,
a frieze of palmettes and parapet with half-blind balusters.
INTERIOR: columns to an entablature and cast-iron frieze
divide the arcade into 9 bays, with a glazed roof divided by
panelled sections with lion heads. A fine surviving example of
an early shopping arcade, modelled on the Burlington Arcade,
Piccadilly, London, and at 600 feet in length, rivalling
contemporary arcades in Cheltenham, Bath and London.
Originally in 2 sections, the Upper Arcade was destroyed in
1940.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 241).
Listing NGR: ST5908573372
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379022
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 241
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing
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