Purdown Hospital, Castle and Screen Wall
PURDOWN HOSPITAL, CASTLE AND SCREEN WALL, BELL HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1204095
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1991
- Statutory Address:
- PURDOWN HOSPITAL, CASTLE AND SCREEN WALL, BELL HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1204095
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1991
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- Statutory Address 1:
- PURDOWN HOSPITAL, CASTLE AND SCREEN WALL, BELL HILL
Location
- Statutory Address:
- PURDOWN HOSPITAL, CASTLE AND SCREEN WALL, BELL HILL
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 61377 76207
Details
BRISTOL
ST6176 BELL HILL, Stapleton 901-1/29/1937 (West side) 27/09/91 Purdown Hospital, Castle and screen wall (Formerly Listed as: BEECH HILL, Stapleton Tower and screen wall, Purdown Hospital)
II
Tower and screen wall. Mid C18. By Thomas Wright. Random Pennant rubble and dressings. Round tower. 2 set-backs articulate the tower; varied fenestration. Lancet doorway with double door and barred tympanum, and lancet windows with alternate blue and red voussoirs with tooled faces. Screen wall to left to the base of a second tower, with 2 crossed arrow slits low in the wall, now incorporated into a late C19 house (not included). INTERIOR not inspected. Probably an eye-catcher as part of Thomas Wright's landscape park for Stoke Park House, and related to his Ragged Castle at Badminton. Illustrated by Loxton c1900. (Loxton S: Bristol: 1900-1910: W 1387; Bristol As It Was: Bristol's Suburbs Long Ago: Bristol: 255).
Listing NGR: ST6137776207
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 378949
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Winstone, R, Bristols Suburbs Long Ago, (1985), 255
Loxton, SL, Loxtons Bristol, (1992)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic interest in England, Part 1 Avon,
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