Arley Chapel
ARLEY CHAPEL, ARLEY HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282415
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Arley Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- ARLEY CHAPEL, ARLEY HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282415
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Arley Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- ARLEY CHAPEL, ARLEY HILL
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:
- ARLEY CHAPEL, ARLEY HILL
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 59040 74295
Details
BRISTOL
ST5974 ARLEY HILL, Cotham 901-1/36/1155 (North East side) 04/03/77 Arley Chapel
II
Congregational chapel, now Polish Roman Catholic church. 1855. By Foster and Wood. Coursed Pennant rubble with limestone dressings, slate roof and leaded dome. Apsidal cruciform plan. Italianate style. A segmentally-curved portico to the W front has Corinthian columns to an entablature with a dentil cornice; in between are semicircular arches with volute keys on square responds, and curved Pennant steps at the base. The pedimented W gable has clasping rusticated pilaster strips, a doorway beneath the portico with moulded architrave and panelled door flanked by narrow windows, and above the portico a dentil pediment over an oculus with 4 round lights; above the pediment is a square tower to a large, domed cupola, with chamfered corners and 3 narrow louvred arches to each face, the cornice raised over clock faces to each side, and a cyma dome with finial. The entablature of the portico extends on pilasters for one quadrant bay each side to the aisles, and the arch between the pilasters containing a shoulder-arch doorway below 2 semicircular-arched windows. Pedimented N transept gable has rusticated pilasters and a Doric Venetian window, the central arch of which breaks the cornice of the pediment, and with brackets below on a sill band which runs along the 6-bay N aisle beneath stilted semicircular-arched windows with plain architraves and moulded imposts; a narrow clerestory of linked round windows. S elevation as N. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: 2-storey annex to the E end has 3-window range of semicircular-arched windows, a pronounced impost band and clasping pilasters. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 384).
Listing NGR: ST5904074295
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 378844
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 384
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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