Cutlers' Hall
CUTLERS' HALL, QUAKERS FRIARS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1217854
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Cutlers' Hall
- Statutory Address:
- CUTLERS' HALL, QUAKERS FRIARS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1217854
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Cutlers' Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- CUTLERS' HALL, QUAKERS FRIARS
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:
- CUTLERS' HALL, QUAKERS FRIARS
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 59252 73322
Details
BRISTOL
ST5973 QUAKERS FRIARS, Broadmead 901-1/40/490 Cutlers' Hall 08/01/59
GV II*
Monastery dormitory, cutlers' guild hall, now offices. Part of the Dominican friary of c1230, converted C16, restored mid C19. Pennant rubble, limestone dressings and pantile roof. First-floor hall plan. 2 storeys; N elevation has a 15-window range: left-hand C20 porch. Ground-floor windows incorporating one paired ogee-headed window, and first-floor C19 lancets with splayed reveals; E end has C13 stepped lancets with round trefoil heads, reportedly moved from the nearby Bakers' Hall (qv); the W end has a C14 two-light window with mouchette quatrefoil head; the mid C19 south elevation has a 9-window range: a left-hand doorway with shouldered lintel and moulded jambs with tulips to the top; 5 ground-floor 2-light windows set in 2-centred arches with foliate corbels and plate tracery, separated by buttresses, and upper C19 paired lancets with blind trefoils above; corbel table. INTERIOR: restored C20 ground floor has 2 fireplaces with wrought-iron fire baskets and C17 fire surrounds, and C13 rere arches to 2 south-facing windows; restored C14 twelve-bay arch-braced collar-beam roof with 2 tiers of pointed-arched wind braces, and c1970 tie beams. Founded as a Dominican Friary, bought by the Cutlers' Guild after the Reformation, and used by the Quakers for a school from 1845 and restored by them in 1869. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 26).
Listing NGR: ST5924973322
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380235
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 26
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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