St Monica's Chapel, St Monica's Home of Rest
ST MONICA'S CHAPEL, ST MONICA'S HOME OF REST, COTE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282318
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1993
- List Entry Name:
- St Monica's Chapel, St Monica's Home of Rest
- Statutory Address:
- ST MONICA'S CHAPEL, ST MONICA'S HOME OF REST, COTE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282318
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1993
- List Entry Name:
- St Monica's Chapel, St Monica's Home of Rest
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST MONICA'S CHAPEL, ST MONICA'S HOME OF REST, COTE LANE
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 MONICA'S CHAPEL, ST MONICA'S HOME OF REST, COTE LANE
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 57154 76288
Details
BRISTOL
ST5776 COTE LANE, Stoke Bishop 901-1/28/2131 (South side) 24/02/93 St Monica's Chapel, St Monica's Home of Rest
GV II
Chapel. 1925. By Sir George Oatley. For HH Wills. Squared, coursed Pennant rubble, limestone ashlar and tiled roof. Chancel with flanking S Lady Chapel and N organ bay, and nave. Perpendicular Gothic Revival style. E end has buttresses to a tall central gable with 2-centred arched 5-light window with ogee heads, transom, and panel tracery, and flanking attached pinnacles, shallower flanking gables have 4-centre arched 3-light windows with hoods and foliate stops; sill mould, cornice with carved beast heads and good parapet of openwork quatrefoils and finial, over undercroft which has paired windows to the middle and 3-light windows to the side gables with mullions, beneath a drip course. The flanking gables repeated on N side of 6 bays, with projecting 2-bay organ room, and blind W bay; an octagonal ashlar bell tower in the re-entrant with the chapel with square belfry, angle buttresses to pinnacles, 3-light windows and open Tudor-arched windows to the belfry, a crested parapet, and weathered roof to a finial. Matching S elevation without the tower. W elevation attached to rear of Rest Home has a wide 4-centre window. INTERIOR: E end blind tracery panels round the window, and piscina and sedilia with attached crocketed pinnacles; S Lady Chapel, N organ bay with a good organ by 'Father' Willis. Timber reredos has open 2-centre arches, fan vaulted above to linenfold panelling, and a raised crucifix with flanking figures. Nave windows have blind tracery panels, and stone bench along the sides; the W end has 4 blind arches flanking the central Tudor-arched doorway, beneath fan vaults to a moulded band and 2-centred arched panels to the gallery parapet. The roof has arch-braced tie beams on angel corbels. An exceptionally well-detailed though anachronistic design, using several motifs, such as the blind panelling and gallery, from the Wills Tower (qv), designed 1914. See St Monica's Rest Home (qv). (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 417).
Listing NGR: ST5715476288
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379416
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 417
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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