Description

BRISTOL

ST5872NE CLARE STREET, Centre
901-1/16/548 (South East side)
04/03/77 No.28

GV II

Includes: No.14 ST STEPHEN'S STREET Centre.
Bank, now offices. 1883. By Henry Crisp. Limestone ashlar with
ashlar lateral stacks and leaded roof.
Single-depth plan. 3 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window
range. A corner site with 2 window canted corner with the
entrance, and a 5-window left-hand return; articulated by
Corinthian pilasters, with foliate panels, to each floor, with
entablature and cornices set forward to the pilasters.
Full-height ground-floor openings have richly moulded, splayed
reveals and spandrels, with fluted, carved columns set in the
jambs, and cartouche keys: semicircular-arched to the canted
sections and at each end, wide elliptical-arched between with
2 mullions as the jambs, and carved figures above the
transoms.
The entrance has a flat-headed doorway within the arch with a
moulded architrave, a panel of bayleaf above to a segmental
pediment with cartouche, and plate-glass fanlight.
First- and second-floor windows have recessed panelled
mullions and entablatures to windows above semicircular-arched
ground-floor openings, and tripartite windows over the
elliptical-arched ones with panelled mullions. The 2-window
left-hand section of the return has a wide elliptical carriage
arch with wrought-iron gates, and semicircular-arched windows
above. Dormers have foliate-panelled Corinthian pilaster jambs
to pediments, segmental to the corner dormers and end ones
with finials, acroteria to the rest, and balusters between.
Plate-glass sashes. Tall stacks flank the first left-hand
dormer, with pilasters and cornice.
INTERIOR: largely refurbished late C20.
Richly decorated in an eclectic manner, notable for the
full-height glazing between the cornices.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 389).

Listing NGR: ST5872872937

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26569719

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record