OLD CITY GAOL, SOUTH EAST PERIMETER WALL

OLD CITY GAOL, SOUTH EAST PERIMETER WALL, CUMBERLAND ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1202190
Date first listed:: 08-Aug-1975
List Entry Name:: OLD CITY GAOL, SOUTH EAST PERIMETER WALL
Statutory Address:: OLD CITY GAOL, SOUTH EAST PERIMETER WALL, CUMBERLAND ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1202190
Date first listed:: 08-Aug-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: OLD CITY GAOL, SOUTH EAST PERIMETER WALL
Statutory Address 1:: OLD CITY GAOL, SOUTH EAST PERIMETER WALL, CUMBERLAND ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: OLD CITY GAOL, SOUTH EAST PERIMETER WALL, CUMBERLAND 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:: ST5862372141

Details

BRISTOL

ST5872 CUMBERLAND ROAD, Floating Harbour 901-1/42/1296 (North West side) 08/08/75 Old City Gaol, south-east perimeter wall (Formerly Listed as: CUMBERLAND ROAD Wall of Western Fuel Company premises)

II

Perimeter wall to the old gaol, now warehouse. 1832. By TS Pope. Carboniferous limestone ashlar and coursed pennant. A tall, curved wall with broad buttresses has an elliptical-arched carriage entrance at the E end with a key dated 1890; battered N wall runs W from there. HISTORICAL NOTE: the City Gaol had 5 wings centred on the entrance gate (qv), and this is the remains of the eastern wing. The city gaol was largely demolished in 1898; the surviving entrance gateway is 200m to the W (qv).

Listing NGR: ST5862372141

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Legacy System number:: 379483
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.