Church of St Agnes With St Simon
CHURCH OF ST AGNES WITH ST SIMON, THOMAS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282074
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Agnes With St Simon
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST AGNES WITH ST SIMON, THOMAS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282074
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Agnes With St Simon
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST AGNES WITH ST SIMON, THOMAS STREET
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:
- CHURCH OF ST AGNES WITH ST SIMON, THOMAS STREET
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 59949 74098
Details
BRISTOL
ST5974 THOMAS STREET, St Paul 901-1/36/1914 (East side) 04/03/77 Church of St Agnes with St Simon (Formerly Listed as: NEWFOUNDLAND ROAD Church of St Agnes with St Simon)
II
Church. 1886. By W Wood Bethel. Random Pennant rubble, squared and coursed for the buttresses, with limestone dressings and a tiled roof. PLAN: aisled nave and chancel, N and S porches and NW tower. Decorated Gothic Revival style. EXTERIOR: E window with reticulated tracery, foliate hood stops, irregular quoins and a drip mould beneath the window which runs round the church, setback buttresses with square gableted pinnacles, an arrow slit beneath the apex cross and narrow cinquefoil windows to the returns. The vestry N gable has 2 thin lancet windows separated by a buttress, and a valley roof. An octagonal stair turret for the organ loft, with a weathered stone top, lies in the angle of a porch to the W, with a coped gable and gableted kneelers and apex, and steps up to a lancet doorway with scrolled reveals; the drip mould runs into an ogee hood capped by a fleur-de-lys. N aisle of 3 bays, windows with intersecting tracery separated by buttresses, and a sloping roof below the clerestory of 8 bays of paired square-headed windows. Above the chancel arch is a small, gableted spirelet. The 3-stage tower is divided by drip moulds with Tudor roses, has setback buttresses and an octagonal NW stair turret: W door has scrolled reveals and foliate stops to the hoodmould which runs up into a canopied niche containing a figure of the Virgin; first-floor windows with reticulated tracery, and clocks above; belfry windows with 2 mullions and elaborate open tracery and a fleur-de-lys to the hoodmould; an open crenellated parapet, square pinnacles and a spirelet to the stair turret with a pyramidal top. The W gable has a large window above the drip mould with reticulated tracery, flanked by square pinnacles to the buttresses. INTERIOR: 3-bay chancel with a piscina and sedilia with Tudor rose chamfers, and 2 pointed arches to the sides, the organ bay to the N and chapel to the S. Chancel arch with carved capitals with figures of the saints. 5-bay nave of unmoulded arches with figured capitals. Roof of close-set collar rafters. FITTINGS: stone octagonal pulpit with mosaic panels and Tudor roses. 1991 offices and community rooms inserted to 3 W bays and repair work by Ferguson Mann, architects. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 328).
Listing NGR: ST5994974098
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380706
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 328
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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