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Latitude: 51.457 / 51°27'25"N
Longitude: -2.589 / 2°35'20"W
OS Eastings: 359173
OS Northings: 173276
OS Grid: ST591732
Mapcode National: GBR C9J.FK
Mapcode Global: VH88N.2MNY
Plus Code: 9C3VFC46+QC
Entry Name: Merchant Taylors' Almshouses
Listing Date: 8 January 1959
Last Amended: 30 December 1994
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1025053
English Heritage Legacy ID: 379992
ID on this website: 101025053
Location: Newtown, Bristol, BS1
County: City of Bristol
Electoral Ward/Division: Central
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Bristol
Traditional County: Gloucestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Bristol
Church of England Parish: Bristol St Stephen with St James and St John the Baptist with St Michael and St George
Church of England Diocese: Bristol
Tagged with: Almshouse
BRISTOL
ST5973 MERCHANT STREET, Broadmead
901-1/40/485 (West side)
08/01/59 Nos.19 AND 21
Merchant Taylors' Almshouses
(Formerly Listed as:
MERCHANT STREET, Broadmead
(West side)
Nos.19 AND 21
Lloyds Bank)
GV II*
Almshouse, now bank. Dated 1701. Render over brick, rendered
lateral stacks and a slate hipped roof. U-shaped plan with
wings flanking front courtyard. Early Georgian style. 2
storeys; 4-window range. Symmetrical with deep projecting
wings to a courtyard. Chamfered quoins, first-floor string and
modillion cornice to boxed eaves; the central doorway has a
good bracketed shell hood, a plain surround and 2-leaf 2-panel
doors; matching doorways face across the courtyard with carved
brackets to a pedimented hood. C20 cross windows flanking the
main door, 3 to each side of the courtyard and 2 in the ends.
Above the door is a large, painted panel bearing the arms of
the Merchant Taylor's Guild, and flanking it the inscription
ANNODM/1701. INTERIOR not inspected. One of Bristol's earliest
brick buildings, it was built by the Guild for the
accommodation of 9 persons, each side of the building having 3
dwellings.
Listing NGR: ST5917373276
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