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Latitude: 51.4831 / 51°28'59"N
Longitude: -2.5415 / 2°32'29"W
OS Eastings: 362496
OS Northings: 176151
OS Grid: ST624761
Mapcode National: GBR CN7.16
Mapcode Global: VH88G.WZSG
Entry Name: Glenside Hospital Chapel
Listing Date: 25 April 1990
Last Amended: 30 December 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1202004
English Heritage Legacy ID: 378966
Location: Bristol, BS16
County: City of Bristol
Electoral Ward/Division: Eastville
Built-Up Area: Bristol
Traditional County: Gloucestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Bristol
Church of England Parish: Fishponds All Saints
Church of England Diocese: Bristol
BRISTOL
ST6276 BLACKBERRY HILL, Fishponds
901-1/30/1261 (North side)
25/04/90 Glenside Hospital Chapel
(Formerly Listed as:
BLACKBERRY HILL, Stapleton
Glenside Hospital)
GV II
Chapel. c1861. Built as part of the Bristol Lunatic Asylum.
Squared Pennant rubble with limestone dressings, a slate roof
and copper lantern. Cruciform plan with N and S porches and E
porte cochere. Gothic Revival style. E end has a low porte
cochere with a weathered and parapeted roof and 2-centred
doorway, below 2 lancets and a rose window within a hoodmould,
an ashlar band to the apex and clasping buttresses; gabled
porch at E end, 4-bay chancel each with a lancet window
separated by a buttress, and corbel table; N transept gable as
the E end, NW chapel gable and 2-bay nave have a hood
enclosing 2 lancets and an oval top window; similar S
elevation has an octagonal stair turret on the W side of the
transept with a decorated ashlar top; the W gable has 3
stepped lancets below a hood, with thin tracery heads, above a
stilted drip; thin octagonal copper-clad lantern over
crossing. INTERIOR not inspected.
Listing NGR: ST6249676151
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
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