SUNDAY SCHOOL OF UNITARIAN CHAPEL AND TOWER HOUSE

SUNDAY SCHOOL OF UNITARIAN CHAPEL AND TOWER HOUSE, LEWIN'S MEAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1202352
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:: SUNDAY SCHOOL OF UNITARIAN CHAPEL AND TOWER HOUSE
Statutory Address:: SUNDAY SCHOOL OF UNITARIAN CHAPEL AND TOWER HOUSE, LEWIN'S MEAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1202352
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1977
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: SUNDAY SCHOOL OF UNITARIAN CHAPEL AND TOWER HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: SUNDAY SCHOOL OF UNITARIAN CHAPEL AND TOWER HOUSE, LEWIN'S MEAD

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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Location

Statutory Address:: SUNDAY SCHOOL OF UNITARIAN CHAPEL AND TOWER HOUSE, LEWIN'S MEAD

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 58669 73322

Details

BRISTOL

ST5873SE LEWIN'S MEAD 901-1/11/130 (North West side) 04/03/77 Sunday school of Unitarian Chapel and Tower House (Formerly Listed as: LEWIN'S MEAD Sunday School of Unitarian Chapel)

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Sunday school, now offices. 1824-6, extended later C19. Roughcast with limestone dressings and slate hipped roof. Single-depth plan. 2 storeys; 5-window range. 2 linked blocks, the longer left-hand one with a plat band, a ramped parapet to the right with a semicircular-arched doorway, matching ground-floor windows with small-paned fanlights, flat headed windows above, all tripartite with 12/12-pane and flanking 6/6-pane sashes; later 2-window right-hand section has ground-floor 6/6-pane sashes, and a matching left-hand glazed C20 door. INTERIOR: converted to offices late C20. A relic of the tight building along the escarpment running parallel with the harbour. Linked to the Lewin's Mead Unitarian Chapel (qv). (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 192).

Listing NGR: ST5866973322

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Legacy System number:: 379939
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 192

Legal

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