Bristol and Exeter Building
BRISTOL AND EXETER BUILDING, TEMPLE GATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1209608
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Bristol and Exeter Building
- Statutory Address:
- BRISTOL AND EXETER BUILDING, TEMPLE GATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1209608
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Bristol and Exeter Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRISTOL AND EXETER BUILDING, TEMPLE GATE
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:
- 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)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- 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.
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