BRISTOL AND EXETER BUILDING
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1209608
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- Statutory Address:
- BRISTOL AND EXETER BUILDING, TEMPLE GATE
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- BRISTOL AND EXETER BUILDING, TEMPLE GATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 59669 72351
Details
BRISTOL
ST5972 TEMPLE GATE
901-1/42/290 (North East side)
04/03/77 Bristol and Exeter Building
GV II*
Railway station, now offices. 1852. By SC Fripp. For the
Bristol and Exeter Railway Company. Limestone ashlar with a
slate hipped roof. Planned around a central atrium. Jacobethan
style. 2 storeys, basement and attic; 9-window range. A
symmetrical front has a high plinth, projecting ends and a
centre flanked by square towers, and raised quoins and jambs;
paired engaged Doric columns flank a semicircular-arched
doorway with a lozenge-panelled door, and scrolls in the
spandrels; the entablature runs round the building, between
3-light mullion and transom windows to the wings and centre,
2-light in between and one-light to the tower; Dutch gables to
the front and end gables, which have wide bays with
first-floor oriels; the 3-stage towers have circular clock
panels to the top stage and leaded ogee domes; ridge stacks
with linked, diagonally-set stacks. INTERIOR: a large, top-lit
central atrium has a cantilevered stone open-well stair with
scrolled cast-iron balusters and square newels, doorcases with
round-headed arches, keys and floating cornices, and a
second-floor balcony with rectangular Ionic columns to the
lantern. HISTORICAL NOTE: built by the Bristol and Exeter
Railway Company, whose train shed stood on the site of the
current Temple Meads station (qv). Graded for its historic and
architectural interest as part of an outstanding group of
railway buildings.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 348).
Listing NGR: ST5966972351
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380660
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 348
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing
