Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202294
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202294
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH 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:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH 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 53111 76904
Details
BRISTOL
ST5376NW HIGH STREET, Shirehampton 901-1/18/1734 (South side) Church of St Mary
II
Church. 1929. By P Hartland Thomas. Reinforced concrete clad with Pennant rubble with limestone dressings and a pantile roof. Aisled nave and chancel with side chapels, and W porch. Modernist Gothic Revival style. The E end has a single-storey parapeted vestry with roll top coping beneath a gable with angle buttresses and 5-light 2-centred arched window, divided by a transom. 3-bay N chancel divided by buttresses with a 3-light mullion window with flat head to the E end, and a drip course below the parapet. The E end of the taller nave has a tall stepped gable bellcote with weathered coping, containing 2 flat-headed openings with bells and a central louvred panel, with a cross above. The gable carries down to form a weathered buttress to the end of the low parapeted, windowless aisle with a left-hand 2-centred arched doorway; the nave has flat-headed 5-light mullion and transom windows extending between the buttresses. Similar S elevation. The W end has low 3-light mullion windows to the aisles and sides of the gable, a deep porch with semicircular-arched doorway with deep splayed reveals divided by 3 inscribed arches, and a 2-leaf door; above is a 5-light 2-centred arched mullion and transom window. INTERIOR: plain, unmoulded divisions, with a 2-centre chancel arch, square piers to flat-headed aisle arches, with aisles divided by semicircular cross arches. Stripped Gothic fenestration incorporated into a Modernist shell: '..no other English architect has taken church design so far along a non-traditional path' (Gomme). (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 419; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol: London: 1958-: 472).
Listing NGR: ST5311176904
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379773
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958), 472
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 419
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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