Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, MANOR ROAD
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Overview
- 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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- Date:
- 2001-01-24
- Reference:
- IOE01/03193/03
- Rights:
- © Mr Cyril N. Chapman. Source: Historic England Archive
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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 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, MANOR ROAD
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 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379978
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
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.
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