TEMPLE MEADS STATION
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1282106
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1966
- Statutory Address:
- TEMPLE MEADS STATION, TEMPLE WAY
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- TEMPLE MEADS STATION, TEMPLE WAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 59749 72461
Details
BRISTOL
ST5972 TEMPLE WAY
901-1/42/292 (North East side)
01/11/66 Temple Meads Station
GV I
Railway station. 1865-78. By Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt. For
Great Western Railway and Midland Railway. Additional
platforms of 1930-5. Conglomerate with limestone dressings.
Booking office with forward projecting screens to train sheds.
Tudor Revival style.
2 storeys; 3-window range, with single storey; 19-window range
to right and 17-window range to left. Booking office has a
symmetrical crenellated front with lower angled side blocks
and a central 2-stage tower, and octagonal turrets to the
corners; ground-floor 4-centred arches have banded Purbeck
marble shafts, a label mould with quatrefoil spandrels, and
C20 doors; first floor has 6-light square-headed windows with
transoms and cinquefoil heads, stilted labels over panels with
quatrefoils over the middle window; a half-quatrefoil arcade
below the parapet, with blind lancets to the merlons; the
turrets have 2 crenellated courses below pyramidal tops.
The tower has an arcade of engaged shafts which pass through
the drip to pointed arches, under a large square panel and
clock with a trefoil-headed blind arcade above. The shed
screens have mullion and transom windows separated by
octagonal buttresses, with a glazed cast-iron canopy all
around the frontage.
INTERIOR: high booking office of brick with octagonal
tas-de-charges, but a C20 concrete ceiling; mezzanine with
panelled ceiling and 4-centre arched windows with 4 lights and
intersecting tracery. The main train shed has a 2-centred
trussed roof with traceried arch braces on octagonal corbel
shafts and black diaper work under the eaves. Further
platforms of 1930-5 by PE Culverhouse have cream terracotta
buildings with BRISTOL in glazed letters.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the station was a joint venture between the
Great Western Railway and the Midland Railway, and was
originally called Bristol Joint Station. It had a steep French
Empire roof to the tower, which was destroyed in the Second
World War, and crockets to the turret tops. The later Temple
Meads station uniquely shows, with the Bristol Old Station
(qv) at Temple Meads, the growth of a major terminus over more
than a century.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 348).
Listing NGR: ST5974972461
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380663
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 348
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing
