Former Convent at Rear of Parkside Hotel
FORMER CONVENT AT REAR OF PARKSIDE HOTEL, BATH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203961
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Former Convent at Rear of Parkside Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER CONVENT AT REAR OF PARKSIDE HOTEL, BATH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203961
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Former Convent at Rear of Parkside Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER CONVENT AT REAR OF PARKSIDE HOTEL, BATH 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:
- FORMER CONVENT AT REAR OF PARKSIDE HOTEL, BATH 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 61100 71545
Details
BRISTOL
ST67SW BATH ROAD, Brislington 901-1/56/427 (South West side) 08/01/59 Former convent at rear of Parkside Hotel (Formerly Listed as: BATH ROAD (South side) Arno's Court Hotel)
GV II
Convent, now hotel. 1850-1. By Foster and Sons. Built as an extension to Arno's Court. For the Sisterhood of the Asylum of the Good Shepherd. Pennant rubble with Bath stone dressings, slate roof. Italianate style north-facing block with cloister and chapel backing onto rear of Parkside Hotel (qv). 3 storeys and attic; 3-window range in the north elevation and 2-window range in the east, between clasping pilasters. Keyed, segmental heads and wide, flat surrounds, string courses extending from the cills and above the heads; heavy coved cornice under the attic storey, and tall chimneys with bracketed cornices. The entrance to the cloister to the left and back from the main front; originally 2 storeys. It has ashlar and rubble stripes and a wide round arch on moulded springers and banded jambs with a wooden door, and a tall screen wall to left beside the Bath Road; inside is a cloister, open on 2 sides. The exterior of the chapel has 3 tall pointed windows and an attached column with carved capital and plinth on the right hand corner. INTERIOR: chapel, now snooker room, has 3 marble columns at east end with Corinthian capitals and round arches; the ceiling is divided into large panels by moulded beams, which curve down to bear on corbels at the sides. A later addition in plainer style to the west extends along the side, and has a front to the W of Parkside Hotel (qv). (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 166).
Listing NGR: ST6110071545
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 378920
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 166
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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