St Nicholas Chambers
ST NICHOLAS CHAMBERS, 6-12, ST NICHOLAS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282112
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- St Nicholas Chambers
- Statutory Address:
- ST NICHOLAS CHAMBERS, 6-12, ST NICHOLAS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282112
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- St Nicholas Chambers
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST NICHOLAS CHAMBERS, 6-12, ST NICHOLAS 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:
- ST NICHOLAS CHAMBERS, 6-12, ST NICHOLAS 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 58923 72962
Details
BRISTOL
ST5872NE ST NICHOLAS STREET, Centre 901-1/16/654 (North side) 04/03/77 Nos.6-12 (Even) St Nicholas Chambers (Formerly Listed as: ST NICHOLAS STREET Nos.6-10 (Even) St Nicholas Chambers, Nos.1 and 2)
GV II
Terrace of 4 shops and offices. 1867. By Ponton and Gough. Tooled random limestone ashlar with red sandstone dressings, brick party wall and lateral stacks, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Venetian Gothic Revival style. 4 storeys; 8-window range. A symmetrical front has a curved 2-window left-hand end. The front has a parade of three C20 shops set behind quatrefoil cast-iron columns to moulded capitals and fittings in the sides for bars, wide, carved pillows to moulded lintels, and narrower entrances at each end with matching stone responds with sandstone bands and crocket capitals; the curved end has 3 plate-glass windows and a right-hand door with panelled stall riser. Above is a ground-floor cornice, raised plinths, carved and moulded impost bands and cornices to first and 2nd floors, an ornate coved frieze, cornice and parapet. Arcades of 3:2:3 windows; on the first and 2nd floors with square piers to semicircular arches, archivolts with linked circles on the first floor and sunken squares on the 2nd; paired corner windows similar with central attached shafts. 3rd-floor windows have shouldered lintels set in rectangular recesses with chamfered sides. First-floor windows have labels with carved dragon stops, round panels between the arcades with headless busts and foliate spandrels, and dragons in the remaining spandrels. INTERIOR: largely remodelled mid C20. A fine composition, an important element in the streetscape. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 373; Crick C: Victorian Buildings in Bristol: Bristol: 1975-: 44).
Listing NGR: ST5892372962
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380478
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 373
Crick, C, Victorian Buildings in Bristol, (1975), 44
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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