Redland Chapel
REDLAND CHAPEL, REDLAND GREEN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1218876
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Redland Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- REDLAND CHAPEL, REDLAND GREEN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1218876
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Redland Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- REDLAND CHAPEL, REDLAND GREEN 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:
- REDLAND CHAPEL, REDLAND GREEN 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 57983 74983
Details
BRISTOL
ST5774 REDLAND GREEN ROAD, Redland 901-1/34/1723 (South side) 08/01/59 Redland Chapel
GV I
Chapel. 1740-43. Probably by John Strahan. Plasterwork by Thomas Paty. For John Cossins of Redland Court (qv). Limestone ashlar and leaded dome, roof not visible. Chancel and nave. Baroque style. Square chancel has rusticated quoins, sill band, cornice and parapet, with blind lunette with Gibbsian architrave on Moor's head corbels below the band; 4-bay N elevation of semicircular-arched windows with panelled architraves, imposts and keys, aprons below the band and plain frieze under cornice, with sections of blind balustrade over windows. Similar S elevation. W front is an engaged portico, 2 pairs of Ionic pilasters to modillion pediment containing lunette with floral architrave; segmental-headed 2-leaf panelled door in eared architrave with scrolled key, garland and floating cornice and rustication either side, beneath shell-head niche with volute feet and winged cherub set in raised panel; on the pediment a square plinth with urns at corners, which curves up into an octagonal cupola with keyed oculi on the principal sides, cornice on acanthus brackets and gadrooned octagonal dome with gilded ball and cross. INTERIOR: fine and complete. At E end winged cherubs round the lunette, with octagonal coffering to chancel ceiling, and a cornice running round into a pulvinated frieze flanking semicircular chancel arch, on fluted pilasters; panelled wainscotting with winged cherub-head corbels to fluted pilasters flanking windows, coffered reveals, and plaster decoration to spandrels; at W end a shouldered architrave with console key below pediment leads to octagonal vestibule, semicircular keyed arches either side, below 3 equal arches to gallery, with blind balustrades to flanking elliptical arches, and niches between containing busts. FITTINGS: pulpit with tester by Paty, carved with trophies; hexagonal baluster font 1755 by Thomas Paty; marble Communion table on gilded eagle in style of Kent. Monuments: busts of John and Martha Cossins by Rysbrack in gallery. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: flight of Pennant stone steps to entrance returns at the ends with a wrought-iron rail. Attribution is not proven, and William Halfpenny, who supervised completion, may also have been the architect. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 135; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 55; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol: London: 1958-: 470; Dening C F W: The Eighteenth Century Architecture of Bristol: Bristol: 1923-: 85).
Listing NGR: ST5798174983
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380322
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958), 470
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 135
Dening, C F W, The Eighteenth Century Architecture of Bristol, (1923), 85
Ison, W, The Georgian Buildings of Bristol, (1952), 55
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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