Royal Hospital For Sick Children and Attached Front Walls
ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS, ST MICHAELS HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202548
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Hospital For Sick Children and Attached Front Walls
- Statutory Address:
- ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS, ST MICHAELS HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202548
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Hospital For Sick Children and Attached Front Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS, ST MICHAELS HILL
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:
- ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS, ST MICHAELS HILL
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 58376 73492
Details
BRISTOL
ST5873SW ST MICHAEL'S HILL 901-1/10/284 (South West side) 04/03/77 Royal Hospital for Sick Children and attached front walls (Formerly Listed as: ST MICHAEL'S HILL (South West side) Royal Hospital for Sick Children (front block only))
II
Hospital. 1885. By Robert Carwen. Red Pennant rubble with limestone dressings, ridge stacks and a cross-gabled tiled roof. Double-depth plan. Tudor Gothic Revival style. 2 storeys and attic; 5-window range. A symmetrical front has shallow end gables linked by a lower parapet, sill and lintel bands, and moulded copings. A large, full-height ashlar porch has clasping octagonal buttresses with crenellated tops, and a Tudor-arched doorway with 2 orders in a rectangular frame with pointed overlights; above is a 3-light oriel with a moulded base, Tudor-arched windows and narrow overlight, and a panelled, crenellated parapet. Mullion and transom windows with metal casements, of 3 lights flanking the door, and cross windows to outer canted bays with openwork parapets. First-floor inner windows have cinquefoil-headed lights, outer ones have Tudor-arched heads with Perpendicular tracery. Gables have 2-light louvred windows with labels. Panels between the inner windows inscribed HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN. 2 large cross-axial stacks. INTERIOR: entrance hall with a cornice and Tudor roses, and two 2-centre arches on a central octagonal pier to a rear open-well stair. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached rubble walls with moulded copings to the entrance. (The Builder: London: 790).
Listing NGR: ST5837673492
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380475
- 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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