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University of Bristol, Geography Department

A Grade II Listed Building in Bristol, City of Bristol

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.457 / 51°27'25"N

Longitude: -2.6052 / 2°36'18"W

OS Eastings: 358049

OS Northings: 173282

OS Grid: ST580732

Mapcode National: GBR C5J.SK

Mapcode Global: VH88M.SMMY

Plus Code: 9C3VF94V+QW

Entry Name: University of Bristol, Geography Department

Listing Date: 30 December 1994

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1202652

English Heritage Legacy ID: 380756

ID on this website: 101202652

Location: Tyndall's Park, Bristol, BS8

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: Clifton, St Paul

Church of England Diocese: Bristol

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Description


BRISTOL

ST5873SW UNIVERSITY ROAD 901-1/10/315 (South East side) University of Bristol, Geography Department

GV II

University department. 1892. By F Bligh Bond. Red Pennant rubble with limestone dressings, gable stacks and a slate roof. L-shaped double-depth plan. Collegiate Tudor Gothic Revival style. 2 storeys and basement; 6-window range. A 2-window gable, 3-window block to left and canted bay in the angle. Moulded plinth, sill and lintel string courses, cornice with carved heads and gargoyles and crenellated parapet, with coped gables. Front right-hand gable has clasping octagonal buttresses to cyma pepperpots with large crockets; 3-light mullion and transom windows, with cinquefoil heads on the ground floor, and curvilinear tracery to the first floor, flank an exterior chimney breast with 3 octagonal ashlar stacks to a crocketed gable. Similar windows as the ground floor to the remainder, separated by buttresses, with a Tudor-arched doorway in the right-hand bay under a 2-centred arch with an open work parapet above. Full-height canted bay in the re-entrant. INTERIOR: largely rebuilt mid C20 after a fire. Open-well stair with moulded rail. Originally the Medical School, and part of the first buildings for the new university designed by C Hansom, and adapted after his death by Bond. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 323; Crick C: Victorian Buildings in Bristol: Bristol: 1975-: 58).

Listing NGR: ST5804973282

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