Knowle Methodist Church
KNOWLE METHODIST CHURCH, WELLS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219263
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Knowle Methodist Church
- Statutory Address:
- KNOWLE METHODIST CHURCH, WELLS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219263
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Knowle Methodist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- KNOWLE METHODIST CHURCH, WELLS 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:
- KNOWLE METHODIST CHURCH, WELLS 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 60618 70852
Details
BRISTOL
ST67SW WELLS ROAD, Knowle 901-1/56/1561 (West side) 04/03/77 Knowle Methodist Church
II
Church. 1904. Snecked Pennant rubble with limestone dressings, tiled roof with copper and shingle details. Cruciform plan with no chancel. Arts and Crafts style. Steeply gabled W end with ashlar bands and an apex cross has a large 6-light window with 2 king mullions and reticulated tracery, and is flanked by angle buttresses to octagonal finials with flared copper caps; in front a gableted porch with a shallow 2-centred arched doorway below a segmental arch with dentils, containing a 2-leaf door with foliate stained glass; flanking parapeted blocks have cinquefoil-headed windows with square heads. N elevation of 3 bays of 2-light windows with reticulated tracery, separated by buttresses, under sprocketed eaves. The banded N transept has a 4-light window. Similar S elevation, and a plain S transept with a spheroid triangular window with trefoils; above the crossing is a steep pyramidal lantern hung with shingles. Attached to the E end is a 2-storey annex with brick gable-end stack: N elevation has cinquefoil-headed windows to the ground floor either side of a wider 3-light window, and 6 flattened trefoil-headed windows to the first floor, with an angle buttress to a bartizon in the angle with the church. INTERIOR: pointed arch below crossing has marble colonnettes with stiff leaf capitals; hammerbeam roof on corbels.
Listing NGR: ST6061870852
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380808
- 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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