Hope Chapel
HOPE CHAPEL, HOPE CHAPEL HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293087
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Hope Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- HOPE CHAPEL, HOPE CHAPEL HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293087
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Hope Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOPE CHAPEL, HOPE CHAPEL 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:
- HOPE CHAPEL, HOPE CHAPEL 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 56907 72665
Details
BRISTOL
ST5672NE HOPE CHAPEL HILL, Hotwells 901-1/13/1437 (North side) 08/01/59 Hope Chapel
II
Congregational chapel, now hall. 1786. Possibly by Daniel Hague. Altered, largely refenestrated and extended 1838. Render over Pennant rubble with limestone dressings, hipped slate roof. Hall and N vestry wing. A symmetrical 4-bay S front has clasping pilasters with round-topped sunken panels separated by a lozenge, to a cornice and parapet, raised and pedimented to the centre; 2 central 4-centre arched doorways linked by a hoodmould, with large foliate stops and ribbed doors, beneath two 3-light, and flanking 2-light, windows with cusped, intersecting tracery. 5-bay W elevation of Y-tracery windows with a transom quatrefoil panel. Similar E elevation. Vestry of 1838 has 6/6-pane sash windows. INTERIOR: hall with a balcony on 4 sides with quatrefoil panels, on cast-iron columns with fluted, moulded capitals; organ recess to north end at gallery level; queen post truss roof. Founded by Ladies Hope and Glenorchy for Calvinistic evangelical worship, and linked to Hague by similar window details at St Paul's Portland Square. Extended by a single bay to the N in 1838, when the windows were replaced. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 176; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol: London: 1958-: 412; An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels...in Central England: Stell C: Gloucestershire: London: 1986-: 63).
Listing NGR: ST5690772665
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379793
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Central England, (1986), 63
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958), 412
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 176
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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