City Road Baptist Chapel and Attached Steps and Railings
CITY ROAD BAPTIST CHAPEL AND ATTACHED STEPS AND RAILINGS, CITY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202082
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1990
- List Entry Name:
- City Road Baptist Chapel and Attached Steps and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- CITY ROAD BAPTIST CHAPEL AND ATTACHED STEPS AND RAILINGS, CITY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202082
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1990
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- City Road Baptist Chapel and Attached Steps and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- CITY ROAD BAPTIST CHAPEL AND ATTACHED STEPS AND RAILINGS, CITY 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:
- CITY ROAD BAPTIST CHAPEL AND ATTACHED STEPS AND RAILINGS, CITY 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 59130 73843
Details
BRISTOL
ST5973NW CITY ROAD, Stokes Croft 901-1/6/2021 (South West side) 12/09/90 City Road Baptist Chapel and attached steps and railings (Formerly Listed as: CITY ROAD City Road Baptist Chapel)
GV II
Baptist chapel. 1861. By James Medland and AW Maberley. Snecked rubble with limestone dressings and a tile roof. Aisled single-cell plan. Italianate style. W front has a tall central gable with a Lombard frieze, parapet with rope moulding and a central square pinnacle, flanked by clasping buttresses forming small turrets with octagonal pinnacles; a semicircular-arched door of 3 orders has foliate capitals to shafts, foliate decoration to the inner arches and rope and flowers to the outer; shoulder-arch door and CITY ROAD BAPTIST CHAPEL 1862 in the tympanum; a band runs across above the door reading STRIVE TO ENTER IN AT THE STRAIT GATE, below a wheel window with 12 trefoil-headed lights and polychrome voussoirs. The W ends of the aisles have similar buttresses and parapets, and windows with 2 semicircular-arched lights with shafts, set in a semicircular arch. 5-bay N aisle has shallow buttresses and Lombard frieze, and windows as the W end with foliate roundels in the tympana, beneath inserted round windows of 1905 breaking the frieze; similar smaller arched windows form a clerestory below a corbel table. Similar S aisle has a crypt, with plain semicircular-arched windows separated by splayed buttresses, a door to the W and 2 small set-backs above. 2-storey; 3-window range Jubilee Chapel dated 1885 attached to E end has round-headed windows and a shallow porch with a semicircular-arch doorway with zigzag moulding and a round window above. INTERIOR: 4-bay aisles with moulded arches on richly-carved capitals; bracketed gallery to sides and W end with an openwork front and Lombard frieze; round-headed doorways with dogtooth architraves to E and W; arch-braced king-post roof. FITTINGS: mid C19 benches and decoratively carved pulpit. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Pennant stone steps up to the W front from the S, and fleur-de-lys railings to the front area and N sides. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 384).
Listing NGR: ST5913073843
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379183
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 384
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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