Christ Church

CHRIST CHURCH, DOWNEND ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1320055
Date first listed:
15-Jul-1981
List Entry Name:
Christ Church
Statutory Address:
CHRIST CHURCH, DOWNEND ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1320055
Date first listed:
15-Jul-1981
List Entry Name:
Christ Church
Statutory Address 1:
CHRIST CHURCH, DOWNEND 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHRIST CHURCH, DOWNEND ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Downend and Bromley Heath
National Grid Reference:
ST 64965 76496

Details

1. 5118 EX-MANGOTSFIELD UD DOWNEND ROAD (south side) Christ Church ST 67 NW 1/185 II 2. 1831, by Oliver Greenway, local architect. Chancel 1914. Coursed pennant rubble with ashlar dressings, slate roof (chancel tiled), west end has coped gable with side pinnacles and a 2-light belfry with a pierced spirelet, angle buttresses and 2 side lancets. Central 3-light pointed window with intersecting tracery. Tudor arch doorway with panelled doors and carved spandrel. Five bay nave with ashlar parapet, 3-light lancets with intersecting tracery and headstops to labels. Dividing buttresses. Two bay chancel and tower vestry to north-east. Tower chapel to south-east. Rose window to east. Most prominent feature is panelled screen on roof above chancel arch with side belfries and pierced spirelets. Interior: wide auditorium type.

Listing NGR: ST6496576496

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Legacy System number:
28781
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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