Bristol Grammar School
BRISTOL GRAMMAR SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218741
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Bristol Grammar School
- Statutory Address:
- BRISTOL GRAMMAR SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218741
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Bristol Grammar School
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRISTOL GRAMMAR SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY ROAD
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 GRAMMAR SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY ROAD
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 58092 73428
Details
BRISTOL
ST5873SW UNIVERSITY ROAD 901-1/10/310 (North West side) 04/03/77 Bristol Grammar School
II
School. 1879. By Foster and Wood. Extended 1909 by Sir Frank Wills, and 1914 by WV Gough. Red rubble with limestone dressings and a slate roof. 1879 Great Hall, with 1909 block across its S end and 1914 block across the W end of the latter. Great Hall 2 storeys; 9-window range. A symmetrical block articulated by buttresses, with central projecting entrance and stair blocks each side; moulded sill and first-floor drip courses, cornice with gargoyles, and crenellated parapet and stepped gables. N entrance block has diagonal buttresses, Tudor-arched doorway with splayed panelled reveals and a panelled 2-leaf door, and a label with head stops and foliate spandrels. 2 storey canted oriel above has a moulded base, a central traceried panel and flanking statue niches with canted canopies, and a crenellated top. To the right is a narrow square 3-stage stair turret. 3-light mullion and transom flat-headed ground-floor windows with ogee heads, Tudor-arched first-floor windows with Perpendicular tracery. Rear matching gabled stair block, with a tower capped by a good wrought-iron canopy with a square ogee copper roof. The end gables have large 4-centre arched windows with Perpendicular tracery, angel label stops, and a gabled cornice below the parapet. The 1909 block has a road front with 3 gables to the left of an entrance tower, containing a Tudor-arched door, tall first-floor Tudor-arched mullion and transom window, and a Lombard frieze to a stepped parapet with raised corners. To the right is a 6-bay range divided by buttresses to mullion and transom windows. The 1914 cross wing is 6 bays long, articulated by buttresses with crenellated square tops above the parapet, first-floor windows with Tudor-arched heads, and end gables with tall central first-floor windows with elliptical-arched heads and Perpendicular tracery. INTERIOR: traceried glazed entrance screen to a central stair hall, a rear Imperial stair with stone parapet, and wrought-iron upper balusters with a brass rail; Great Hall on first floor has an arch-braced king post roof, with through purlins and pointed wind braces to the lower bays, with attached shafts to large angel corbels holding shields; panelled lower walls containing raised seats with canopies; over the entrance is the organ loft. The original building contained the Great Hall as well as 9 classrooms.
Listing NGR: ST5809273428
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380752
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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