Description

BRISTOL

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

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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

• Wikidata Q26571054

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