Description

BRISTOL

ST5873SE NELSON STREET, Broadmead 901-1/11/487 (East side) 18/05/81 Central Police Station (Formerly Listed as: BRIDEWELL STREET Central Police Station and Bristol Police Headquarters)

GV II

Police station. Dated 1928 on hoppers. By Ivor Jones and Percy Thomas. Limestone ashlar, roof not visible. Axial plan with wings at each end. Stripped Neo-Georgian style with Mannerist detail. 2 storeys; 12-window range. A near-symmetrical front has curved ends and short returns, with a fluted frieze and parapet, the centre raised and set forward with a central scroll inscribed Bristol Police Station. Large central Mannerist doorway set in a semicircular-arched recess, has a moulded architrave with Gibbs blocks and 5 massive stepped keys, to double 24-panel studded doors, with a fanlight above. Plain windows with metal glazing bars, windowless first floor to the left; 7-window right-hand return. INTERIOR not inspected. To the same design as the Police Headquarters (qv). (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 422; City Building Series: Burrough T H B: Bristol: London: 1970-: 128).

Listing NGR: ST5893673265

External Links

• Central Police Station, Bristol at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5061681

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Recommended Books

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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)