Description

BRISTOL

ST316071 WELLS ROAD, Totterdown
901-1/47/2041 (East side)
Totterdown Baptist Church and
attached front area walls

II

Baptist chapel. 1880. By Alfred Harford. Pennant rubble with
limestone dressings, slate hipped and gable roof. Open plan.
Romanesque Revival style. 2 storeys; 5-window range.
A symmetrical front has a gabled centre set forward with a
first-floor band with sunken roundels, moulded impost bands,
gableted kneelers and a moulded coping; lower outer sections
with hipped roofs, with single-storey gabled porches with
buttressed sides, semicircular-arched doorways with imposts,
attached colonnettes and oculi above, to 2-leaf doors with
strap hinges.
Central ground-floor arcade of 6 semicircular-arched windows
with carved capitals at the ends and small colonnettes;
tripartite first-floor semicircular-arched windows with
panelled aprons between plinths supporting attached
colonnettes, paired to the taller middle window. Horizontal
glazing bars with stained-glass margin panes. Above the
doorways are paired semicircular-arched windows below a
segmental-arched label with stops. Return elevations have
7-window ranges, paired first-floor windows in
segmental-arched ashlar surrounds, above 3-light mullion
windows.
INTERIOR: 3-sided balcony on cast-iron columns, with bowed
cast-iron railings; similar railings to the raised preaching
box at the E end, with steps up each side; SE organ.

Listing NGR: ST6029871302

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26571054

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Recommended Books

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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)