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Latitude: 51.4688 / 51°28'7"N
Longitude: -2.5162 / 2°30'58"W
OS Eastings: 364236
OS Northings: 174554
OS Grid: ST642745
Mapcode National: GBR CTD.P9
Mapcode Global: VH88P.BBMV
Plus Code: 9C3VFF9M+GG
Entry Name: Handel Cossham Memorial Hospital
Listing Date: 4 March 1977
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1206237
English Heritage Legacy ID: 379950
ID on this website: 101206237
Location: Two Mile Hill, Bristol, BS15
County: City of Bristol
Electoral Ward/Division: Hillfields
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Bristol
Traditional County: Gloucestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Bristol
Church of England Parish: Fishponds St John
Church of England Diocese: Bristol
Tagged with: Memorial
BRISTOL
ST67SW LODGE ROAD, Fishponds
901-1/56/1268 (West side)
04/03/77 Handel Cossham Memorial Hospital
II
Hospital. 1905-07. By F Bligh Bond. Squared red Pennant rubble
with limestone dressings, Bath stone ashlar, green slate roof
with chimneys in front of the ridge. L-shaped plan. Queen Anne
style with Edwardian Baroque influences. 2-storeys and attic;
12-window range.
The principal block has a central pedimented entrance bay,
with banded rusticated ground floor, running into a Gibbs
surround to round-headed door with a shouldered architrave and
pronounced, grotesque key. Above is an open, scrolled pediment
containing a keyed oculus with floral carving. First-floor
round-headed window with architrave and Gibbs surround, with a
bayed balustrade. Modillioned pediment with cartouche, and
relief ribbons inscribed HANDEL COSSHAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
1905. Ground and first-floor windows with shouldered
architraves and keys, segmental-arched on first floor, with
panelled aprons beneath.
Canted bays to the middle of the wings with 4-light windows
and parapets. Deep modillion cornice, sprocketed eaves and 2-
and 3-light dormers, with side windows and modillion
pediments. At the right-hand end is a square tower and a
flat-roofed block. In the angle between the 2 wings is an
octagonal tower, with a balcony with iron railings, clocks to
alternate faces, topped by an octagonal dome surrounded by a
balustrade with urns, and a cupola on columns. The left wing
has a mansard roof, with a 3-story block behind.
INTERIOR: remodelled in the C20.
Listing NGR: ST6423674554
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