Bedminster Library
BEDMINSTER LIBRARY, BEDMINSTER PARADE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1204061
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Bedminster Library
- Statutory Address:
- BEDMINSTER LIBRARY, BEDMINSTER PARADE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1204061
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Bedminster Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- BEDMINSTER LIBRARY, BEDMINSTER PARADE
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:
- BEDMINSTER LIBRARY, BEDMINSTER PARADE
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:
- ST5882871842
Details
BRISTOL
ST315871 BEDMINSTER PARADE, Bedminster
901-1/45/368 (West side)
Bedminster Library
GV II
Library. 1914. By Sir Frank Wills. Brick with limestone
dressings and a tiled hipped roof.
Open plan with a rear left-hand stair tower. Edwardian Baroque
style. 2 storeys; 7-window range.
A symmetrical front has heavy clasping pilasters to an
entablature with modillion cornice, parapet with a plinth and
raised centre with a wreath, articulated by ground-floor brick
buttresses beneath first-floor Ionic pilasters. A large
doorway has broad panels to a pulvinated frieze and wide, open
pediment, pilaster jambs to a low doorway with a scrolled key
and double 6-panel doors, an oculus above with an octagonal
lantern and a split key, with a cartouche above held by
flanking putti. Semicircular-arched ground-floor windows have
keys and imposts to 12/12-pane horned sashes; first-floor
windows set beneath the entablature have distyle-in-antis
Doric columns between the pilasters, with glazing bars. The
3-window left-hand gable has ashlar bands, ground-floor
windows as the front with doorways beneath lunettes,
first-floor windows as the front, flanking a tall central
semicircular-arched window with pilaster jambs and a
segmental-arched hood.
The 3-stage stair tower has ground-floor windows as the gable,
with a double door to the front beneath a deep stone canopy,
architraves to first-floor windows, with a triple window in
the left return with a segmental pediment to the centre, and
plain sill and head bands; heavy scrolled consoles to the
plain ashlar eaves, with narrow windows between, and a
pyramidal roof.
INTERIOR: open ground floor with cornice, quadripartite vaults
to left side on plain columns; the tower has an open-well
stair with a central lift shaft.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the »10,000 cost was met by George Wills.
(Loxton S: Loxton's Bristol: Bristol: 1992-: 85).
Listing NGR: ST5882871842
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 378936
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Loxton, SL, Loxtons Bristol, (1992)
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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