Clifton College, Guthrie Memorial Chapel
CLIFTON COLLEGE, GUTHRIE MEMORIAL CHAPEL, COLLEGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1355185
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Clifton College, Guthrie Memorial Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- CLIFTON COLLEGE, GUTHRIE MEMORIAL CHAPEL, COLLEGE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1355185
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Clifton College, Guthrie Memorial Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLIFTON COLLEGE, GUTHRIE MEMORIAL CHAPEL, COLLEGE ROAD
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
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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:
- CLIFTON COLLEGE, GUTHRIE MEMORIAL CHAPEL, COLLEGE 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 57044 73866
Details
BRISTOL
ST5773NW COLLEGE ROAD, Clifton 901-1/2/830 (North East side) 04/03/77 Clifton College, Guthrie Memorial Chapel
GV II*
Chapel. From 1866. By Charles Hansom. Enlarged 1909-10 by Sir Charles Nicholson. Snecked Brandon Hill Grit with limestone ashlar and dressings, copper-clad lantern and slate hipped roof with bands of hexagonal slates. Apse, chancel, octagonal nave and narthex. Decorated Gothic Revival style. E and W ends C19 with central crenellated nave inserted C20. An octagonal C19 apse has a plinth, parapet, and steep roof with lead crockets and finial and decorative ridge tiles; C20 chapels each side have sloping parapets. 2-storey, 4-bay crenellated sides of the C20 octagonal nave project at an angle from the side elevations, with a ground-floor linking screen wall over a vaulted cloister to the S; 2-light windows with Decorated tracery. Steep gabled C19 W end has 3 bays separated by buttresses, each with 4 ground-floor lancets with columns and bell capitals, and a string; above is a large rose window, and 3 round carved panels. Large octagonal lantern has wide 2-centred arched 5-light windows and a crenellated parapet with corner pinnacles, clad in copper. To NW is a 2-centred arched door in a 1-storey block linking to a 2-stage octagonal tower, with a weathered course below the belfry with louvred 1-light windows, pierced parapet with gargoyles to weathered roof and spirelet with steep gabled spire lights and weathered top. Projecting clock in timber case. INTERIOR: reredos of triple lancets on columns with foliate capitals and moulded hoods, rere arches to windows on banded black marble columns, banded granite columns to painted roof, and mosaic floor to altar; paired arches to side chapels, which have outer triple arches to the roof on stout granite columns and foliate capitals, and large angel corbels playing instruments; octagonal nave has blind lower arches, plain vault ribs to the lantern, which has figures in niches in the angles. 3-bay narthex has 2-centred arched doorway with head stops. FITTINGS: octagonal pulpit with steps up and a sounding board, and pews to the sides facing in, with rear thrones either side of the door with canopies over. Stained glass includes knightly figures such as King Arthur and Sir Galahad dating from the Boer War. Nicholson left Hansom's E and W ends, dismantled the nave of the chapel and superimposed 2 octagons upon it, '...a unique design and one of outstanding merit.' (Gomme). (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 320; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol: London: 1958-: 419).
Listing NGR: ST5704473866
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379320
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958), 419
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 320
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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