Abbey Chambers
1, 3 AND 5, BALDWIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202084
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Chambers
- Statutory Address:
- 1, 3 AND 5, BALDWIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202084
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Chambers
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, 3 AND 5, BALDWIN STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- ABBEY CHAMBERS, 4 6 8, CLARE 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:
- 1, 3 AND 5, BALDWIN STREET
- Statutory Address:
- ABBEY CHAMBERS, 4 6 8, CLARE 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 58649 72902
Details
BRISTOL
ST5872NE CLARE STREET, Centre 901-1/16/540 (South East side) 04/03/77 Nos.4, 6 AND 8 Abbey Chambers
GV II
Includes: Nos.1, 3 AND 5 BALDWIN STREET Centre. Bank, now offices. 1883. By Frederick Mew, reportedly completed 1897 by RM Drake. Altered 1924 by Benjamin Wakefield. Limestone ashlar, carboniferous limestone doorways, brick and limestone cross-axial stacks, roof not visible. Double-depth plan to a 2-sided wedge-shaped site. Eclectic Italian Renaissance Revival style. 3 storeys and attic; 8-window range. A heavily decorated front and similar rear elevation to Baldwin Street. Pedimented 5-window section set forward with a 3-window left-hand section, divided by square pilasters through a ground-floor fascia and cornice to a modillion cornice. Pilasters are banded on the ground floor to fluted necks and acanthus capitals, and paired fascia consoles; plain above to small segmental pediments over lion heads, fluted necks and carved head consoles beneath the cornice. A large ornate doorway has deep fluted consoles to a 3-centre arch, adorsal Assyrian sphinxes above flank a swan's neck pediment, and brackets each side to a fluted frieze and pediment formed from the cornice, with acroteria; small pedimented name panels on the jambs. C20 shop fronts each side; the left-hand section has distyle-in-antis pilasters decorated as the end ones. Upper floors articulated by attached Corinthian columns to the right and pilasters to the left, with fluted necks. First-floor windows have pilaster jambs and entablature lintels, console pilasters to pediments over the 3 above the doorway, and to the middle of the wing; second floor has pilaster jambs; C20 plate-glass windows. The frieze has small sunken roundels set in wreaths, and acroteria to the shallow pediment, with a low parapet behind and a central stack topped by a segmental pediment. The rear elevation is a 7-window range, with carboniferous limestone doorways at each end and plate-glass shop fronts. The doorways have banded, ovolo surrounds, consoles to shallow pediments and rectangular lights above; upper floors articulated as the Clare Street centre, the first floor has alternate narrow windows with pilaster jambs, and pedimented ones as Clare Street, with second-floor pilaster jambs and wreaths to the entablature, which is dated 1855, 1883 and 1925. Balustrade over windows. INTERIOR: refurbished 1992. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 839).
Listing NGR: ST5864972902
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379187
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 839
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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