ST NICHOLAS' ALMSHOUSES
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1209635
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- Statutory Address:
- ST NICHOLAS' ALMSHOUSES, 1-10, KING STREET
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- ST NICHOLAS' ALMSHOUSES, 1-10, KING STREET
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 58841 72735
Details
BRISTOL
ST5872NE KING STREET, Centre
901-1/16/596 (North side)
08/01/59 St Nicholas' Almshouses, Nos.1-10
(Consecutive)
GV II*
Almshouses. 1652-6, extended C19, restored 1961 by Donald
Install. Render with limestone dressings, brick valley stacks
and pantile cross-gabled roof. Single-depth plan. 2 storeys
and attic; 11-window range. A long, regular range of equal
gables, with C19 three-gable right return, one set diagonally
across the corner. Entrance gable is slightly larger, 5 from
the left, with a bolection-moulded surround to an
ovolo-moulded timber-frame with heart-shaped chamfer stops,
and framed 15-panel door. 3-light ground-floor and 2-light
first-floor ovolo-moulded mullion windows have lattice-leaded
casements, with semicircular heads above the entrance, and
hoodmoulds to the first-floor and three C19 ground-floor
windows; small louvred windows in the gables beneath small
cornices, that over the entrance with a raised surround. The
gutters between the valleys give onto a full-width box gutter.
INTERIOR not inspected, but reported as being largely
remodelled in the restoration. The ceiling of the old chapel
above the entrance remains, a plaster barrel vault decorated
with figures, coat of arms and strapwork with arabesques and
birds, in manner of Vredeman de Vries (Gomme). The foundations
of a bastion of the City Wall were revealed during
restoration.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 83).
Listing NGR: ST5883172734
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379882
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 83
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