Description

PUXTON C.P. BRISTOL ROAD
ST 36 SE

4/9 CHURCH OF ST ANNE

- II

Anglican church (now redundant). 1864 by John Norton for Robert Phippen, former
mayor of Bristol. Snecked rubble, freestone dressings, ornamental flay tile
roofs and ridge, raised coped verges. Nave with gabled south porch, transepts,
bell-tower, apse, north vestry. Early English. Plain gabled nave of 3 bays,
windows mainly 2-light with plate tracery; buttressed west end has 2 pairs of
lancets with continuous drip under relieving arch. Doorway in gabled south
porch has 2 shafts with stiff-leaf capitals under a floreate tympanum. The
gabled south transept has a similar door under a trefoiled arch, 2 lancets above
flank a canopied niche with Madonna and Child and above is a rose window with
plate tracery; the similar north transept has no door and 3 plain tall lancets.
A slender, circular bell-tower in the angle between transept and nave rises
to conical cap on a shafted arcade. The apse has lancets between slender shaft
carrying trefoiled arched. Interior: fine, shafted chancel arch; apse has a
screen of shaft bearing trefoiled arches and an ornately painted ceiling. Source:
N Pevsner: Buildings of England, North Somerset and Bristol: 1958.

Listing NGR: ST3976064267

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26494276

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
• 
  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
• 
  For the Record