Tower of Church of St Mary Le Port

TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST MARY LE PORT, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1208338
Date first listed:
08-Jan-1959
Statutory Address:
TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST MARY LE PORT, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1208338
Date first listed:
08-Jan-1959
Statutory Address 1:
TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST MARY LE PORT, HIGH STREET

Location

Statutory Address:
TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST MARY LE PORT, HIGH STREET

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 58980 73017

Details

BRISTOL

ST5873SE HIGH STREET, Centre 901-1/11/590 (East side) 08/01/59 Tower of Church of St Mary-le-Port

II

Church tower. C15. Limestone ashlar with coursed Pennant rubble. Perpendicular Gothic with a Somerset-type tower. 3 stages divided by drip moulds, with angle buttresses and an octagonal SE stair tower. W door with hollow-moulded reveals and foliate stops; 4-light window above, and a blind, 2-light window in the second stage. Belfry with 2-light louvred windows, a crenellated parapet of blind tracery panels with crocketed corner pinnacles and a SE spirelet with tracery panels, crockets and a carved finial. INTERIOR not inspected. The unclerestoreyed nave had one aisle and 4-centred arches with moulded capitals. It was destroyed by bombing in the Second World War. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 60).

Listing NGR: ST5898073017

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Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 60

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