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BRISTOL

ST315871 BEAULEY ROAD, Bedminster
901-1/45/364 (North side)
30/05/86 Southville Community Centre
(Formerly Listed as:
BEAULEY ROAD
Ashton Park Lower School including
walls, railings, gates & caretaker's
house)

II

Board school, now community centre. c1895. By Edward Gabriel.
For Bristol School Board. Brick with yellow brick bands,
limestone dressings, brick lateral stacks and tiled gable
roof. H-shaped single-depth plan with classrooms round a
central hall. Subdued Flemish Renaissance style. A symmetrical
front has 3 coped gables to the ends with yellow brick bands
and mullion and transom casement windows. A central parapeted
entrance block has an ashlar doorcase with a segmental
pediment, 2-leaf C20 door, and flanking 3-light windows.
Gables each side have large tripartite windows below panels
with curved brackets to an aedicule and shell hood niche.
Larger central hall gable behind has a large
semicircular-arched window with a label, and corner stacks.
Matching rear elevation. Side elevations have projecting
gables with tripartite windows under a cornice. Right-hand
rear block has a large square lantern with a tented roof to an
open cupola and finial. Left-hand rear wing has paired gables.
INTERIOR: 4-bay hammer beam roof to the hall with turned
pendents. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: perimeter walls and
wrought-iron railings, with overthrow arches to gateways
indicating opposite BOY and GIRL entrances. A
formally-arranged school plan, possibly the first in the
Bristol Board manner of classrooms round a central hall.

Listing NGR: ST5800971826