ST JOHN'S PAROCHIAL SCHOOL AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS

ST JOHN'S PAROCHIAL SCHOOL AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, WHITELADIES ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1282066
Date first listed:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: ST JOHN'S PAROCHIAL SCHOOL AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: ST JOHN'S PAROCHIAL SCHOOL AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, WHITELADIES ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1282066
Date first listed:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: ST JOHN'S PAROCHIAL SCHOOL AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: ST JOHN'S PAROCHIAL SCHOOL AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, WHITELADIES 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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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: ST JOHN'S PAROCHIAL SCHOOL AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, WHITELADIES 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 57326 74855

Details

BRISTOL

ST5774 WHITELADIES ROAD, Clifton 901-1/34/1133 (North East side) St John's Parochial School and attached walls and railings

II

School, now offices. 1850. Brandon Hill Grit squared rubble with Pennant bands and limestone dressings, cross axial stacks and decorative tiled cross-gabled roof. Axial single-depth plan. Tudor Gothic Revival style. Single storey and attic; 9-window range. A near-symmetrical block with a large cross gable in the middle and lower ones at each ends and in the returns. A moulded plinth, Pennant bands below cills, heads and relieving arches; moulded eaves with carved rainwater heads, coped gables with kneelers and finials. Doorway in the left side of the main gable with an elliptical arch, chamfered jambs and a label with a battened door; at each end are lean-to porches with Tudor-arched doorways, open to the right end, with side windows with margin lights. Large mullion and transom Tudor-arched window in the main gable has 15 lights and lattice cast-iron panes; above it is a plaque inscribed ST JOHN'S PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS/ MDCCCL, and a small bellcote. Other windows have mullions and metal casements; the side and end gables have 3-light ground-floor and 2-light first-floor windows, and between are 3- and 2-light mullion windows, with labels. The fine roof has a diaper pattern of black tiles with red and brown tiles between. Similar rear elevation has later additions. INTERIOR: few surviving original details. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front area walls with wrought-iron railings and tall perimeter walls to playground at the rear. A vigorous design with good townscape value.

Listing NGR: ST5732674855

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 380886
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.