Description

BRISTOL

ST5973 QUAKERS FRIARS, Broadmead
901-1/40/490 Cutlers' Hall
08/01/59

GV II*

Monastery dormitory, cutlers' guild hall, now offices. Part of
the Dominican friary of c1230, converted C16, restored mid
C19. Pennant rubble, limestone dressings and pantile roof.
First-floor hall plan. 2 storeys; N elevation has a 15-window
range: left-hand C20 porch. Ground-floor windows incorporating
one paired ogee-headed window, and first-floor C19 lancets
with splayed reveals; E end has C13 stepped lancets with round
trefoil heads, reportedly moved from the nearby Bakers' Hall
(qv); the W end has a C14 two-light window with mouchette
quatrefoil head; the mid C19 south elevation has a 9-window
range: a left-hand doorway with shouldered lintel and moulded
jambs with tulips to the top; 5 ground-floor 2-light windows
set in 2-centred arches with foliate corbels and plate
tracery, separated by buttresses, and upper C19 paired lancets
with blind trefoils above; corbel table.
INTERIOR: restored C20 ground floor has 2 fireplaces with
wrought-iron fire baskets and C17 fire surrounds, and C13 rere
arches to 2 south-facing windows; restored C14 twelve-bay
arch-braced collar-beam roof with 2 tiers of pointed-arched
wind braces, and c1970 tie beams. Founded as a Dominican
Friary, bought by the Cutlers' Guild after the Reformation,
and used by the Quakers for a school from 1845 and restored by
them in 1869.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 26).

Listing NGR: ST5924973322

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17552940

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