Description

BRISTOL

ST5773SW PRINCESS VICTORIA STREET, Clifton
901-1/8/938 (South side)
No.13
Clifton Library and attached front
railings and gates

GV II

School, now library. Founded 1852. Designed by C Underwood,
rebuilt 1877 by Charles Hansom, additions 1891 by WT Bernard.
Limestone ashlar, roof not visible. U-shaped double-depth
plan. Italianate style.
2 storeys and basement; 11-window range. A symmetrical front
has later narrow projecting wings with clasping pilasters to a
coved cornice and panelled parapet, with an earlier and taller
centre with cornice and parapet, and a central segmental
pediment. sill and impost bands, those to the wings set in a
panel between the pilasters. Semicircular-arched doorways in
the returns have C20 doors. Windows have semicircular moulded
archivolts, 2 small windows to the ground floor of the wings,
and to the returns, and taller single second-floor windows to
the wings. The centre has three 2-window ground-floor arcades,
and smaller 3-window first-floor arcades, with CHRIST CHURCH
SCHOOL inscribed in oval panels between.
INTERIOR: largely rebuilt; stone dogleg stairs with
wrought-iron railings in the right-hand wing, and roof trusses
with chamfered queen posts.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron gates and ashlar wall
with fleur-de-lys head railings closes the forecourt between
the wings. HISTORICAL NOTE: one of a small number of pre-Board
schools in Bristol.

Listing NGR: ST5699073007

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Clifton Library official website
• Wikidata Q26498061

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)