Montpelier High School
Montpelier High School, Cheltenham Road, Bristol, BS6 5RD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205072
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Montpelier High School
- Statutory Address:
- Montpelier High School, Cheltenham Road, Bristol, BS6 5RD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205072
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Montpelier High School
- Statutory Address 1:
- Montpelier High School, Cheltenham Road, Bristol, BS6 5RD
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:
- Montpelier High School, Cheltenham Road, Bristol, BS6 5RD
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 59027 74475
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25 February 2022 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
ST5974
901-1/36/41
BRISTOL
CHELTENHAM ROAD (East side)
Montpelier High School
(Formerly listed as Colston's Girl School)
04/03/77
II
School. 1891. By WV Gough. Red Cattybrook bricks with yellow brick and buff terracotta dressings, brick ridge stacks and slate roof. E-shaped double-depth plan with right-hand extension. An eclectic polychrome mix of various Northern Renaissance styles. Three storeys and basement; 14-window range. Two near-identical gables project either side of a full-height porch, divided by pilaster strips with faceted rustication to the ground floor, which is alternate bands of brick and terracotta. An elaborate terracotta doorcase with Gibbsian Ionic pilasters and a scrolled pediment, below a bowed oriel with three windows and a parapet, with two mullion and transom ground-floor windows, and mullion first-floor windows, either side.
Flanking tall gables each with three keyed semicircular arches: the left one is fully glazed with a circular light above Tudor-arched cross windows on the ground and first floors, separated by a cornice; the right gable has smaller square-headed cross windows separated by a sunken panel; above both are panels with urns, keyed oculi and pedimented top panels in steep gables with segmental pediments.
INTERIOR: details include an entrance hall and steps with a terracotta balustrade through two segmental arches on Ionic columns to an axial corridor; glazed brick wainscot and stained glass windows; a large hall in the left-hand block, with Doric columns framing a proscenium arch, a gallery, and a king-post truss roof; cloakrooms with stained-glass partitions.
(Crick C: Victorian Buildings in Bristol: Bristol: 1975-: 61).
Listing NGR: ST5902774475
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379119
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Crick, C, Victorian Buildings in Bristol, (1975), 61
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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