Old City Gaol, South East Perimeter Wall
OLD CITY GAOL, SOUTH EAST PERIMETER WALL, CUMBERLAND ROAD
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379483
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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