Guardian Court
GUARDIAN COURT, BEAUFORT BUILDINGS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1204038
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Guardian Court
- Statutory Address:
- GUARDIAN COURT, BEAUFORT BUILDINGS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1204038
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Guardian Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- GUARDIAN COURT, BEAUFORT BUILDINGS
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:
- GUARDIAN COURT, BEAUFORT BUILDINGS
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 56974 73229
Details
BRISTOL
ST5673SE BEAUFORT BUILDINGS, Clifton 901-1/7/692 (South side) 04/03/77 Guardian Court (Formerly Listed as: BEAUFORT BUILDINGS, Clifton Down Clifton United Reformed Church)
II
United Reform chapel, now flats. 1868. By CF Hansom. Snecked limestone ashlar, Pennant rubble with limestone dressings to the apse and S side, and a slate roof. Cruciform plan with an apse and NW chapel. Decorated Gothic Revival style. Polygonal apse with 2-light windows below a circular light and parapet of pierced trefoils. Steeply gabled N transept gable has a large rose of 6 hexafoils round a central circle, with setback buttresses to pinnacles; 6-bay N elevation of 2-light windows beneath a drip, separated by deep buttresses with crocketed gables, steep roof has decorative ridges and iron finials; an octagonal chapel to the W has 2-light windows with cinquefoils, deep corner gargoyles below the parapet and a steep roof with lead crockets. Steeply gabled W front is flanked by a wide S buttress with a cinquefoil band at the base, and a stepped N buttress rising to a buttressed octagonal pinnacle; in between are 3 open arches with attached shafts and foliate capitals, fleurons to the mouldings, and linked hoods with stops of mythical beasts; above a zigzag strip is a 6-light Decorated window with blind trefoil panels at the base, and a pierced oculus with trefoils in the apex. Behind the arches, the porch has a polychromatic sexpartite vault with finely carved foliate bosses; 3 arched doorways, the N blind, and arches at either end, each of 2 orders with foliate capitals and detached shafts; in the middle and the 2 side arches is a shouldered doorway, with carved scenes of Christ teaching in the tympana. INTERIOR not inspected, but previous list records 'plain interior with hammerbeam roof.' A projected tower was never built. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 314).
Listing NGR: ST5697473229
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 378930
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 314
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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