CHURCH OF ST MARY

CHURCH OF ST MARY, MANOR ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1282220
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, MANOR ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1282220
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, MANOR 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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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, MANOR 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 63285 76003

Details

BRISTOL

ST67NW MANOR ROAD, Fishponds 901-1/54/1272 (South side) 04/03/77 Church of St Mary

II

Church. 1821. Extended chancel and N aisle c1860. Snecked Pennant rubble with limestone dressings and ashlar broach spire, and tiled roof. Apsed nave with W tower and N aisle. Perpendicular Gothic Revival style. Curved apse and side apses, with 7 pointed windows and chamfered reveals; ashlar eaves and decorative ridges. 4-bay N aisle divided by buttresses, with 5-light windows and plate tracery; in the W end, the window is half blocked, and a doorway brought forward between the buttresses. Linked vestry at the E end with 3-light windows, impost band and small 7-foil rose window. 3-bay S side of nave has 4-centred arched 3-light windows, within similar ashlar relieving arches on pilasters. 2-stage tower, flanked by low, slate-roofed narthex, has deeply weathered string, cornice, and diagonal buttresses; a 4-centre arched W door and hood, with a clock above, quatrefoil-headed windows on the N and S sides, and narrow windows to the belfry, with stone louvres and sunken panels; ashlar weathering course leads back into a steep octagonal spire, with louvred lucarnes near the bottom and smaller ones near the top; weather vane and cock. INTERIOR: 2-bay chancel divided by open arches each side, on a round respond to the E, coupled shafts in the middle and thick shaft at the nave end, with stiff-leaf capitals. 7-light window with colonnettes. 4-bay nave arcade ends with an inverted conical corbel at the W end, and has pointed arches, round piers with capitals, and hoods with floral stops. Organ raised above the W door; traces of W gallery. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 292).

Listing NGR: ST6328576003

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Legacy System number:: 379978
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 292

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.