Description

BRISTOL

ST5872NE ST NICHOLAS STREET, Centre
901-1/16/654 (North side)
04/03/77 Nos.6-12 (Even)
St Nicholas Chambers
(Formerly Listed as:
ST NICHOLAS STREET
Nos.6-10 (Even)
St Nicholas Chambers, Nos.1 and 2)

GV II

Terrace of 4 shops and offices. 1867. By Ponton and Gough.
Tooled random limestone ashlar with red sandstone dressings,
brick party wall and lateral stacks, roof not visible.
Double-depth plan. Venetian Gothic Revival style.
4 storeys; 8-window range. A symmetrical front has a curved
2-window left-hand end. The front has a parade of three C20
shops set behind quatrefoil cast-iron columns to moulded
capitals and fittings in the sides for bars, wide, carved
pillows to moulded lintels, and narrower entrances at each end
with matching stone responds with sandstone bands and crocket
capitals; the curved end has 3 plate-glass windows and a
right-hand door with panelled stall riser. Above is a
ground-floor cornice, raised plinths, carved and moulded
impost bands and cornices to first and 2nd floors, an ornate
coved frieze, cornice and parapet.
Arcades of 3:2:3 windows; on the first and 2nd floors with
square piers to semicircular arches, archivolts with linked
circles on the first floor and sunken squares on the 2nd;
paired corner windows similar with central attached shafts.
3rd-floor windows have shouldered lintels set in rectangular
recesses with chamfered sides. First-floor windows have labels
with carved dragon stops, round panels between the arcades
with headless busts and foliate spandrels, and dragons in the
remaining spandrels.
INTERIOR: largely remodelled mid C20.
A fine composition, an important element in the streetscape.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 373; Crick C: Victorian Buildings in
Bristol: Bristol: 1975-: 44).

Listing NGR: ST5892372962

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26571107

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