St Philip's Public Library
ST PHILIP'S PUBLIC LIBRARY, TRINITY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202638
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- St Philip's Public Library
- Statutory Address:
- ST PHILIP'S PUBLIC LIBRARY, TRINITY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202638
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- St Philip's Public Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST PHILIP'S PUBLIC LIBRARY, TRINITY 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:
- ST PHILIP'S PUBLIC LIBRARY, TRINITY 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:
- ST 60051 73477
Details
BRISTOL
ST67SW TRINITY ROAD, Laurence Hill 901-1/56/1564 (East side) St Philip's Public Library
GV II
Library. Dated 1896. By WV Gough. Red and yellow striped brickwork with limestone dressings, and a slate roof. Open plan. Jacobethan style. 2 storeys; 6-window range. Symmetrical front with a central bay projecting slightly, balustrade with square urns on the corners, and a square, louvred cupola on the ridge capped by a dome and weather vane. The main entrance is a round-arched door between brick pilasters; on the first floor above is a detailed heraldic device of unicorns holding a Bristol coat of arms, beneath a scrolled pediment on dwarf Ionic pilasters; the inscription VIRTUE ET INDUSTRIA is underneath. The bay is topped by a panel in the parapet reading ST PHILIPS PUBLIC LIBRARY/ 1896, and a pedimented bellcote containing a clock. Chamfered mullion and transom windows with elliptical heads in rectangular architraves, of 3 lights, 2 transoms to ground floor, 2-light windows each side of each bay. In the centre of each side is a full-height canted bay with a 9-light window. Leaded and stained casement windows. To the left is a single-storey block with a large round-arched doorway on square responds with carved capitals, and a pediment and cartouche above. Brick and ashlar striped piers and steel railings to the front area. INTERIOR: 3 semicircular arches with coffered intrados subdivide the library; roof with trusses with 3 queen posts and arched braces. (Crick C: Victorian Buildings in Bristol: Bristol: 1975-: 61).
Listing NGR: ST6005173477
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380719
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Crick, C, Victorian Buildings in Bristol, (1975), 61
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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