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Latitude: 51.454 / 51°27'14"N
Longitude: -2.5935 / 2°35'36"W
OS Eastings: 358859
OS Northings: 172946
OS Grid: ST588729
Mapcode National: GBR C8K.DM
Mapcode Global: VH88N.0Q97
Plus Code: 9C3VFC34+HJ
Entry Name: Market Chambers and Attached Lamp to North Corner
Listing Date: 4 March 1977
Last Amended: 30 December 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1207585
English Heritage Legacy ID: 380493
ID on this website: 101207585
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
Tagged with: Architectural structure
BRISTOL
ST5872NE ST NICHOLAS STREET, Centre
901-1/16/666 (North side)
04/03/77 Market Chambers and attached lamp to
north corner
(Formerly Listed as:
ST NICHOLAS STREET
(North side)
Market Chambers)
GV II
Market and offices. c1849. By RS Pope. Limestone ashlar,
rendered first floor, ashlar lateral stacks, roof not visible.
Single-depth plan.
2 storeys and basement; 2-window range to St Nicholas Street,
7 to Exchange Avenue. Ground floor has plinth, impost band,
deep plat band, moulded first-floor lintel band, cornice and
parapet. Built on falling ground toward St Nicholas Street,
which has a full basement storey; the doorway in the curved
corner has long, reeded consoles to a pulvinated frieze with
MARKET CHAMBERS in raised letters, and dentil pediment with a
cartouche above crossed branches; inside is a semicircular
arch on volute corbels, split key and rocaille spandrels.
Ground-floor arcade of semicircular arches with moulded
archivolts, and 3-light plate-glass mullion windows; St
Nicholas Street end has 2 banded segmental-arched basement
entrances below the windows, and the right-hand return has
doorways at each end and the middle, with spiked iron gates,
and segmental-headed basement openings. First floor has
architraves to horned plate-glass sashes.
INTERIOR: entrance hall and dogleg stair with uncut string and
turned balusters.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached corner former gas lamp with an
iron bracket and flared glass top on the N corner.
(Gomme A: Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or
Historic Interest: 25).
Listing NGR: ST5885972946
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