Bakers' Hall
BAKERS' HALL, QUAKERS FRIARS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1282148
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Bakers' Hall
- Statutory Address:
- BAKERS' HALL, QUAKERS FRIARS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1282148
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Bakers' Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- BAKERS' HALL, QUAKERS FRIARS
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:
- BAKERS' HALL, QUAKERS FRIARS
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 59262 73297
Details
BRISTOL
ST5973 QUAKERS FRIARS, Broadmead 901-1/40/489 Bakers' Hall 08/01/59
GV II*
Monastery infirmary, bakers' guild hall, now office. Part of the Dominican friary of c1230, guild hall c1540, converted into house C18, restored C19 and C20. Pennant rubble with limestone dressings and sprocketed pantile roof. First-floor hall plan. 2 storeys. Much rebuilt external walls. S elevation of 3-window first-floor range. Central C20 external stack; to right are 2 mid C19 two-light plate-tracery windows, above four C20 windows in plain C20 stone architraves. To left of stack is C18 segmental brick arch over similar C19 plate-tracery window as to right, and a springer for C13 arched windows; on ground floor, from left, is a blocked C13 pointed-arched doorway, jambs for a C17 window, blocked C17 two-light stone-mullioned window, and half a C15 Perpendicular window adjoining the inserted stack, reset 1961 and taken from the nave of the former friary church. W gable end has C17 doorway with chamfered arch and C19 6/6-pane sash set under a concrete lintel above. N elevation has 2 mid C20 pointed-arched openings under C17 relieving arches, with springers for relieving arch to a blocked C13 arch on the left; similar arch to blocked first-floor window. INTERIOR: C14 five and a half bay arch-braced collar beam crown-post roof with lateral bracing to crown post principals jointed above collars, lower pointed-arched wind braces, chamfered through-purlins and wall plate, set on C20 corbels, common rafters and collars mostly C20; chimney breast of inserted C18 house at the W end. Possibly the oldest roof in Bristol, restored 1973. The ground-floor passage was probably the S walk of the 'lower cloister', and the E walk is now covered by the New Hall (qv). Bought by the Bakers' Guild after the Reformation. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 22).
Listing NGR: ST5926273298
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380234
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 22
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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