Old City Gaol, Entrance Wall and Gateway
OLD CITY GAOL, ENTRANCE WALL AND GATEWAY, CUMBERLAND ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207885
- Date first listed:
- 08-Aug-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Old City Gaol, Entrance Wall and Gateway
- Statutory Address:
- OLD CITY GAOL, ENTRANCE WALL AND GATEWAY, CUMBERLAND ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207885
- Date first listed:
- 08-Aug-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Old City Gaol, Entrance Wall and Gateway
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD CITY GAOL, ENTRANCE WALL AND GATEWAY, CUMBERLAND 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:
- OLD CITY GAOL, ENTRANCE WALL AND GATEWAY, CUMBERLAND 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 58536 72088
Details
ST5872
901-1/42/1295
BRISTOL
CUMBERLAND ROAD (North side), Floating Harbour
Old City Gaol, entrance wall and gateway
(Formerly Listed as: CUMBERLAND ROAD
Stone screen entrance wall to Old City Gaol)
08/08/75
II
Entrance wall and gateway. 1832. By HH Seward and RS Pope. Carboniferous limestone ashlar to head height, and Pennant ashlar above. Windowless square towers flank a recessed bay with a large semicircular-arched gateway, with portcullis and iron-clad doors, and semicircular-arched blind windows each side; above is a wide rectangular recess and a thin string course. The entrance to the City Gaol (demolished), designed by HH Seward, pupil of Sir John Soane, in 1816, and restored by RS Pope, city surveyor, after the 1831 riots. It was closed in 1883. (Lord J and Southam J: The Floating Harbour: Bristol: 1983-: 116).
Listing NGR: ST5853672088
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379482
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lord, J, Southam, J, The Floating Harbour, (1983), 116
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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