Holy Cross Inns Court Vicarage
HOLY CROSS INNS COURT VICARAGE, INNS COURT GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1202314
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Holy Cross Inns Court Vicarage
- Statutory Address:
- HOLY CROSS INNS COURT VICARAGE, INNS COURT GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1202314
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Holy Cross Inns Court Vicarage
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOLY CROSS INNS COURT VICARAGE, INNS COURT GREEN
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:
- HOLY CROSS INNS COURT VICARAGE, INNS COURT GREEN
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 58774 69221
Details
BRISTOL
ST56NE INNS COURT GREEN, Knowle 901-1/57/1552 Holy Cross Inns Court Vicarage 08/01/59
II*
Stair turret. Early C15. Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, pantiles and black glazed ridges. 4 sides of a hexagon. Perpendicular Gothic style. 2 storeys with weathered buttresses at the angles; doorway in the side second from right has a 4-centred moulded arch set in a square moulded frame between the buttresses, with plain shields in the spandrels; similar surrounds to single-light windows in the 2 left-hand sides; over them and above the door are 2-light ogee and cinquefoil windows lighting a landing and (removed) run of stairs; ground-floor window to the right of the door is similar to the above but smaller and higher in the wall, and lights surviving stairs from off right up over the door; above is a window with ogee tracery forming trefoils in the spandrels; drip moulding above ground- and first-floor window heads. From the left of the turret extends a wall, sloped to a roof fall with a small 4-centred doorway. C19 shallow roof. The turret is attached to a mid C20 building, (not included). INTERIOR not inspected. The surviving fragment of a once larger house, and probably built for the lawyer Sir John Innys, who died in 1439. 'The most sophisticated piece of building from the early fifteenth century [in Bristol].' (Gomme). (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 72).
Listing NGR: ST5877469221
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379830
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 72
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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