Description

BRISTOL

ST5873SW UNIVERSITY ROAD
901-1/10/310 (North West side)
04/03/77 Bristol Grammar School

II

School. 1879. By Foster and Wood. Extended 1909 by Sir Frank
Wills, and 1914 by WV Gough. Red rubble with limestone
dressings and a slate roof. 1879 Great Hall, with 1909 block
across its S end and 1914 block across the W end of the
latter.
Great Hall 2 storeys; 9-window range. A symmetrical block
articulated by buttresses, with central projecting entrance
and stair blocks each side; moulded sill and first-floor drip
courses, cornice with gargoyles, and crenellated parapet and
stepped gables. N entrance block has diagonal buttresses,
Tudor-arched doorway with splayed panelled reveals and a
panelled 2-leaf door, and a label with head stops and foliate
spandrels. 2 storey canted oriel above has a moulded base, a
central traceried panel and flanking statue niches with canted
canopies, and a crenellated top.
To the right is a narrow square 3-stage stair turret. 3-light
mullion and transom flat-headed ground-floor windows with ogee
heads, Tudor-arched first-floor windows with Perpendicular
tracery. Rear matching gabled stair block, with a tower capped
by a good wrought-iron canopy with a square ogee copper roof.
The end gables have large 4-centre arched windows with
Perpendicular tracery, angel label stops, and a gabled cornice
below the parapet.
The 1909 block has a road front with 3 gables to the left of
an entrance tower, containing a Tudor-arched door, tall
first-floor Tudor-arched mullion and transom window, and a
Lombard frieze to a stepped parapet with raised corners. To
the right is a 6-bay range divided by buttresses to mullion
and transom windows.
The 1914 cross wing is 6 bays long, articulated by buttresses
with crenellated square tops above the parapet, first-floor
windows with Tudor-arched heads, and end gables with tall
central first-floor windows with elliptical-arched heads and
Perpendicular tracery.
INTERIOR: traceried glazed entrance screen to a central stair
hall, a rear Imperial stair with stone parapet, and
wrought-iron upper balusters with a brass rail; Great Hall on
first floor has an arch-braced king post roof, with through
purlins and pointed wind braces to the lower bays, with
attached shafts to large angel corbels holding shields;
panelled lower walls containing raised seats with canopies;
over the entrance is the organ loft. The original building
contained the Great Hall as well as 9 classrooms.

Listing NGR: ST5809273428

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Bristol Grammar School at Wikipedia
• Bristol Grammar School official website
• Wikidata Q4968912

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