Description

BRISTOL

ST5973NW CITY ROAD, Stokes Croft 901-1/6/2021 (South West side) 12/09/90 City Road Baptist Chapel and attached steps and railings (Formerly Listed as: CITY ROAD City Road Baptist Chapel)

GV II

Baptist chapel. 1861. By James Medland and AW Maberley. Snecked rubble with limestone dressings and a tile roof. Aisled single-cell plan. Italianate style. W front has a tall central gable with a Lombard frieze, parapet with rope moulding and a central square pinnacle, flanked by clasping buttresses forming small turrets with octagonal pinnacles; a semicircular-arched door of 3 orders has foliate capitals to shafts, foliate decoration to the inner arches and rope and flowers to the outer; shoulder-arch door and CITY ROAD BAPTIST CHAPEL 1862 in the tympanum; a band runs across above the door reading STRIVE TO ENTER IN AT THE STRAIT GATE, below a wheel window with 12 trefoil-headed lights and polychrome voussoirs. The W ends of the aisles have similar buttresses and parapets, and windows with 2 semicircular-arched lights with shafts, set in a semicircular arch. 5-bay N aisle has shallow buttresses and Lombard frieze, and windows as the W end with foliate roundels in the tympana, beneath inserted round windows of 1905 breaking the frieze; similar smaller arched windows form a clerestory below a corbel table. Similar S aisle has a crypt, with plain semicircular-arched windows separated by splayed buttresses, a door to the W and 2 small set-backs above. 2-storey; 3-window range Jubilee Chapel dated 1885 attached to E end has round-headed windows and a shallow porch with a semicircular-arch doorway with zigzag moulding and a round window above. INTERIOR: 4-bay aisles with moulded arches on richly-carved capitals; bracketed gallery to sides and W end with an openwork front and Lombard frieze; round-headed doorways with dogtooth architraves to E and W; arch-braced king-post roof. FITTINGS: mid C19 benches and decoratively carved pulpit. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Pennant stone steps up to the W front from the S, and fleur-de-lys railings to the front area and N sides. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 384).

Listing NGR: ST5913073843

External Links

• City Road Baptist Church at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5123402

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Recommended Books

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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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