CHURCH OF ST ALBAN

CHURCH OF ST ALBAN, COLDHARBOUR LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1280268
Date first listed:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST ALBAN
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST ALBAN, COLDHARBOUR LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1280268
Date first listed:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST ALBAN
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST ALBAN, COLDHARBOUR LANE

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:: CHURCH OF ST ALBAN, COLDHARBOUR LANE

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 57685 75405

Details

BRISTOL

ST5775 COLDHARBOUR LANE, Redland 901-1/31/1701 (North West side) Church of St Alban

II

Church. 1907-9 nave, 1913-15 transept and E end. By CFW Dening. Squared, coursed Carboniferous limestone, Pennant rubble interior, limestone dressings and Cornish slate roof. Narthex, aisled nave, transepts, side chapels, base of NE tower and chancel. Perpendicular Gothic Revival style. E end has a plinth, angle buttresses to an ashlar parapet with roll top coping, an octagonal stair turret set in the right-hand angle with a weathered top, 2-centred arched 5-light window with Perpendicular tracery, beneath an empty statue niche with a canopy set under a section of raised parapet. Only ground floor of the tower built, now with a pyramidal roof, toothed stonework in the walls above, with a segmental-arched 3-light E window. N chapel has a N segmental-arched doorway and 5-light mullion window beneath a short roof, and 3 lancets above between shallow buttresses and a parapet. N transept has 3-light window below a statue niche, as the E end, with a short flying buttress connecting it to a gable behind, an octagonal stair tower to the left, and segmental-arched doorway beneath a weathered band. 5-bay nave has a bellcote to the E gable; narrow 2-light aisle windows separated by buttresses which rise through the parapet to flying buttresses which split beneath a corbel table above paired 2-light clerestory windows. The W bay has an ashlar surround to a segmental-arched doorway and 2-leaf door. S elevation has a Lady chapel with a canted apse with crenellated parapet, and 2 narrow S windows; the nave is as the N side. The W end has angled parapets to the aisles, octagonal turrets to the W gable with buttresses to the sides, narthex with outer doorways and a central 5-light window, the middle one ashlar, under a weathered band, paired 2-centre 3-light arched windows and a parapet stepped up at the centre. INTERIOR: chancel with piscina and 4 sedilia in shallow arches under a cornice; 3 tall arches each side linked to the side chapels by short arched braces forming narrow full-height aisles; the Lady Chapel has a narrow S aisle, and a carved reredos with blind panels below an arch with panelled soffit; the chancel arch has attached shafts supporting statues with canopies below the arch. Nave has chamfered square piers linked by 2-centre arches, with vault shafts to a 2-centred arched timber roof. W end crossed by a wall with a wide central segmental arch. FITTINGS: octagonal pulpit to the left of the chancel; pew stalls and chairs have ends with angels holding instruments; octagonal stone font. HISTORICAL NOTE: the earlier nave has rubble walls, and may have been designed, with the flying buttresses, to have a stone vault. The high chancel with side aisles and chapels make this '...one of the most thrilling of late Victorian interiors' (Gomme). (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 329; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol: London: 1958-: 452).

Listing NGR: ST5768575405

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 379296
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 329
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958), 452

Legal

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