Former Bristol Baptist College

Former Bristol Baptist College, Woodland Road

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1220398
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:: Former Bristol Baptist College
Statutory Address:: Former Bristol Baptist College, Woodland Road

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1220398
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:: Former Bristol Baptist College
Statutory Address 1:: Former Bristol Baptist College, Woodland Road

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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Location

Statutory Address:: Former Bristol Baptist College, Woodland 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 58176 73345

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This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 3 March 2023 to amend the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

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BRISTOL WOODLAND ROAD (East side) Former Bristol Baptist College

(Formerly listed as BRISTOL BAPTIST COLLEGE)

04-MAR-77

II

College; excluding No. 45 Woodland Road, added to south circa 1960 as principal's house. 1913-15. By Sir G Oatley. Brick with limestone dressings, lateral stacks and a tiled hipped roof. Axial plan with N chapel, and three rear service wings. Tudor Gothic Revival with Free Style influences. Three storeys; seven-window central block, with left-hand stair tower and four-window chapel, and right-hand gable set back. Paired symmetrical gables set at each end of the main range, with 2:3:2 mullion and transom windows, four lights on the ground, three above, half dormers with cross windows between the gables, and keyed oculi in the gables. Ground-floor canted bay to the left-hand gable; a large five-sided ground-floor bay extends from the right-hand gable.

The entrance in the left-hand return of the stair tower has fluted Doric columns to an entablature inscribed FOUNDED 1679, and a strapwork parapet, a Tudor-arched door in a moulded frame, to railed, studded doors with a small overlight. Tall stair lights above and in the front elevation, with stopped labels, a three-light mullion window to the attic, and a crenellated parapet. Chapel has shallow clasping buttresses with gargoyles; the end elevation has a full-height canted bay with flanking tall first-floor statue niches with canopies. Diagonally-set brick stacks.

INTERIOR: large stair hall, an open-well stair has an uncut string with strapwork, blocked column balusters to shallow arches, and square newels to a moulded rail, 3/4 panelling and balcony round the first floor; rear axial passage with semicircular vaulted ceiling; six-panel doors.

(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 409).

Listing NGR: ST5817673345

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Legacy System number:: 380913
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 409

Legal

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