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Latitude: 51.4539 / 51°27'14"N
Longitude: -2.5936 / 2°35'36"W
OS Eastings: 358853
OS Northings: 172938
OS Grid: ST588729
Mapcode National: GBR C8K.DN
Mapcode Global: VH88N.0Q79
Plus Code: 9C3VFC34+HH
Entry Name: Gresham Chambers
Listing Date: 4 March 1977
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1202552
English Heritage Legacy ID: 380482
ID on this website: 101202552
Location: Bristol, BS1
County: City of Bristol
Electoral Ward/Division: Central
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Bristol
Traditional County: Gloucestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Bristol
Church of England Parish: Bristol St Stephen with St James and St John the Baptist with St Michael and St George
Church of England Diocese: Bristol
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BRISTOL
ST5872NE ST NICHOLAS STREET, Centre
901-1/16/657 (North side)
04/03/77 No.18
Gresham Chambers
GV II
Attached shop. 1868. By Ponton and Gough. Random limestone
ashlar with red sandstone bands, brick party wall stacks, roof
not visible. Double-depth plan. Venetian Gothic Revival style.
3 storeys; 3-window range.
A symmetrical front has a shop front with outer doorways and
wider plate-glass window in between, square piers and responds
with crocket capitals, raised blocks above with carved tops
and gablets; lintels between have nail-head mouldings,
flanking a carved, weathered cornice. Round panels in blocks
have painted carved heads. Upper floors have bands of red
sandstone, and impost bands with running incised decoration;
flanking the second-floor bracketed cornice are short paired
columns on moulded corbels with crocket capitals and gableted
tops with shields and MD monogram. 3-window arcades have
banded columns to crocket capitals to stilted 2-centre arches,
taller on the first floor, with moulded arrises, labels, and
shouldered lintels within the arches with moulded spandrels.
INTERIOR: largely remodelled mid C20. One of a number of
similar designs for commercial buildings by Ponton and Gough,
including St Nicholas Chambers (qv).
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 375).
Listing NGR: ST5885372938
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