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Latitude: 51.4467 / 51°26'48"N
Longitude: -2.5968 / 2°35'48"W
OS Eastings: 358623
OS Northings: 172141
OS Grid: ST586721
Mapcode National: GBR C7N.P7
Mapcode Global: VH88M.YW1T
Plus Code: 9C3VCCW3+M7
Entry Name: Old City Gaol, South East Perimeter Wall
Listing Date: 8 August 1975
Last Amended: 30 December 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1202190
English Heritage Legacy ID: 379483
ID on this website: 101202190
Location: Canon's Marsh, Bristol, BS1
County: City of Bristol
Electoral Ward/Division: Central
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Bristol
Traditional County: Somerset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Bristol
Church of England Parish: St Mary Redcliffe with Temple, Bristol and St John the Baptist, Bedminster
Church of England Diocese: Bristol
Tagged with: Perimeter wall
BRISTOL
ST5872 CUMBERLAND ROAD, Floating Harbour
901-1/42/1296 (North West side)
08/08/75 Old City Gaol, south-east perimeter
wall
(Formerly Listed as:
CUMBERLAND ROAD
Wall of Western Fuel Company
premises)
II
Perimeter wall to the old gaol, now warehouse. 1832. By TS
Pope. Carboniferous limestone ashlar and coursed pennant. A
tall, curved wall with broad buttresses has an
elliptical-arched carriage entrance at the E end with a key
dated 1890; battered N wall runs W from there. HISTORICAL
NOTE: the City Gaol had 5 wings centred on the entrance gate
(qv), and this is the remains of the eastern wing. The city
gaol was largely demolished in 1898; the surviving entrance
gateway is 200m to the W (qv).
Listing NGR: ST5862372141
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