Description

BRISTOL

ST5672NE SION HILL, Clifton
901-1/13/1038 (East side)
04/03/77 St Vincent's Priory and attached
wall and railings
(Formerly Listed as:
SION HILL
St Vincent's Priory, No.2 Sion
Villas)

GV II

Attached house. c1820. Stucco and limestone dressings, and a
slate cross-gabled roof. Double-depth plan. Picturesque Gothic
style.
3 storeys, attic and basement; 1-bay range. A symmetrical
gabled front has a right-hand single-storey porch with moulded
coping, 2-centred arched doorway with splayed reveals to an
8-panel door, foliate spandrels, ST VINCENTS PRIORY inscribed
above, and sphinxes on the coping. Elaborate 3-light bows to
the gable: tall lancets on the ground floor have 3/2-pane
sashes with margin panes, separated by colonnettes with
moulded capitals and draped female figures supporting the
second-floor bowed oriel. This has a moulded base, French
windows separated by panelled mullions with gableted tops,
paired to the sides. Third floor as the ground, with 5-pane
windows, hoodmoulds and colonnettes with draped male figures
to the coved eaves, with wrought-iron railings of pointed
arches to the balcony in front. Gabled right return has
1-window range of cross windows. INTERIOR not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached squared rubble wall extends
approx 8m to the right with railings on top the same as the
balcony.
HISTORICAL NOTE: built over caves of supposedly Christian
significance, hence the symbolic decoration.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 285).

Listing NGR: ST5667972919

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26503338

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover