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901-1/10/350

BRISTOL
WOODLAND ROAD (East side)
Former Bristol Baptist College

(Formerly listed as BRISTOL BAPTIST COLLEGE)

04-MAR-77

II

College; excluding No. 45 Woodland Road, added to south circa 1960 as principal's house. 1913-15. By Sir G Oatley. Brick with limestone dressings, lateral stacks and a tiled hipped roof. Axial plan with N chapel, and three rear service wings. Tudor Gothic Revival with Free Style influences. Three storeys; seven-window central block, with left-hand stair tower and four-window chapel, and right-hand gable set back. Paired symmetrical gables set at each end of the main range, with 2:3:2 mullion and transom windows, four lights on the ground, three above, half dormers with cross windows between the gables, and keyed oculi in the gables. Ground-floor canted bay to the left-hand gable; a large five-sided ground-floor bay extends from the right-hand gable.

The entrance in the left-hand return of the stair tower has fluted Doric columns to an entablature inscribed FOUNDED 1679, and a strapwork parapet, a Tudor-arched door in a moulded frame, to railed, studded doors with a small overlight. Tall stair lights above and in the front elevation, with stopped labels, a three-light mullion window to the attic, and a crenellated parapet. Chapel has shallow clasping buttresses with gargoyles; the end elevation has a full-height canted bay with flanking tall first-floor statue niches with canopies. Diagonally-set brick stacks.

INTERIOR: large stair hall, an open-well stair has an uncut string with strapwork, blocked column balusters to shallow arches, and square newels to a moulded rail, 3/4 panelling and balcony round the first floor; rear axial passage with semicircular vaulted ceiling; six-panel doors.

(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 409).

Listing NGR: ST5817673345

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26514873

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Recommended Books

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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)