UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, PHYSICS BUILDING

UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, PHYSICS BUILDING, TYNDALLS AVENUE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1218310
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:: UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, PHYSICS BUILDING
Statutory Address:: UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, PHYSICS BUILDING, TYNDALLS AVENUE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1218310
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:: UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, PHYSICS BUILDING
Statutory Address 1:: UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, PHYSICS BUILDING, TYNDALLS AVENUE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, PHYSICS BUILDING, TYNDALLS AVENUE

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 58272 73433

Details

BRISTOL

ST5873SW TYNDALL'S AVENUE 901-1/10/306 (South East side) 04/03/77 University of Bristol, Physics Building

II

University department. 1929. By Sir George Oatley. Limestone ashlar with a slate mansard roof. L-shaped double-depth plan. Tudor Gothic Revival-style fenestration and Baroque style details. Tower of 5 storeys; 3-window range, with 2 storeys and attic wings of 8 bays to the N and 4 bays to the W. A large, square tower has massive, plain ashlar clasping buttresses, with octagonal turrets to the top storey, and ogee-headed broach finials. Central doorway has a tall porch with fluted Doric columns, entablature and cornice, a semicircular-arched doorway to a 2-leaf door. Square giant mullions separate the windows above, through a transom cornice with carved heads at the third floor, a cornice with carved animals, and twisted attached finials to the stepped crenellated parapet. 3-light mullion and transom windows separated by blind panels, upper windows have Tudor-arched heads with sinuous tracery. The wings are articulated by giant square fluted Ionic attached columns on pedestals to a cornice breaking out over the capitals, supporting larged fluted inverted consoles to a tall, blind attic with moulded coping, and large patera. Full-height mullion and transom windows, with copper suns between the floors. A Tudor-arched doorway with panelled jambs and lintel. INTERIOR: entrance hall, with a large open-well stair to the tower with steel stick balusters. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 325).

Listing NGR: ST5827273433

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Legacy System number:: 380732
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 325

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.