VICTORIA CHAPEL
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202701
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- Statutory Address:
- VICTORIA CHAPEL, WHITELADIES ROAD
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- VICTORIA CHAPEL, WHITELADIES ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 57833 73448
Details
BRISTOL
ST5773SE WHITELADIES ROAD, Clifton
901-1/9/1135 (East side)
04/03/77 Victoria Chapel
(Formerly Listed as:
WHITELADIES ROAD
(East side)
Victoria Chapel (Methodist))
II
Methodist chapel. 1863. By Foster and Wood. Polychromatic
limestone and sandstone ashlar, Pennant rubble basement and E
end, and slate roof. Open plan with SW porch. French Gothic
Revival style, with use of structural polychromy.
Single storey and basement. E end has rose window with bar
tracery; N elevation is 6 bays, 2 depressed trefoil windows on
basement under relieving arch, and 2 ground-floor
trefoil-headed lights with rose window in plate tracery,
separated by deep buttresses with weathered tops, and foliate
corbel table; W porch with plain door, above it a weathered
broach stair tower with paired trefoil windows to each side.
Similar S elevation has a 2-bay W porch with Pennant steps, a
hollow-moulded doorway inside arch with foliate capitals and
hood with king and queen stops; gabled drip with Tudor flowers
and corner gargoyles, and parapet with pierced trefoils; the 2
plate-tracery side windows have paired trefoil-headed lights
and cinquefoil rose in flat polychromatic arch on slender
shafts.
Wide, W gable has set-back buttresses with weathered tops and
central doorway of 3 orders, the inner to cusped cinquefoil
arch, with either side a blind arcade of trefoil arches with
arrow slits in the middle; drip with Tudor flowers rises into
tall gable hood above the arch, enclosing traceried tympanum,
and intersecting the middle of 3 tall W windows with weathered
plinths; each of 3 orders on banded shafts, with foliate
capitals which run into the corbel table to the sides, of 2
lights to sides and 3 in centre, Decorated tracery with
nailheads to the arches; in the apex 5 stepped lancets, 2nd
and 4th blind, beneath a roll-top coping and parapet finial.
Behind the gable is a tall copper spirelet.
INTERIOR: windows have cusped rere arches on foliate corbels,
linked by scrolled ribbon band; cusped arched-braced roof on
columns to corbels, and gallery at W end. Fittings largely
C20. 'One of our prettiest C19 chapels'. (Crick).
(Crick C: Victorian Buildings in Bristol: Bristol: 1975-: 29).
Listing NGR: ST5783373448
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380888
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Crick, C , Victorian Buildings in Bristol, (1975), 29
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing
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