Description

BRISTOL

ST5873SE ALL SAINTS COURT, Centre 901-1/11/506 (East side) 08/01/59 Glebe House and attached area railings (Formerly Listed as: CORN STREET (South side) Church of All Saints with the Glebe House)

GV II

House, now offices. Mid-late C15, altered c1978. Pennant rubble and limestone dressings and stone gable-end stack. Single-depth plan, the rear overhanging the S aisle of All Hallows, Corn Street (qv). 3-storeys and basement; 3-window range. The corners are chamfered at street level and the upper parts corbelled out; a central Tudor-arched doorway with a label mould, and a studded, ribbed door; cross windows with metal casements, a 3-light window to the right on the second floor, and a single-light window over the door. Irregular fenestration to the left gable end: a canted ground-floor bay on the right with cross windows and a roll-top parapet, and a cinquefoil-headed 2-light window to the left above the steps down to the basement; single-light windows over the bay and to the attic. INTERIOR: contains a ground-floor mid C20 stair; first-floor room has a Tudor-arched stone fireplace with cyma and hollow moulding and splayed stop at the base, chamfered beams, with 15 WH 85 painted on one, and a covered window with trefoil head looking on to the church below; second-floor room has a similar fire place, and a 3-bay roof rebuilt c1980 with cambered collars and ties, clasped purlins, ceiled above the collars; a small window with splayed reveals and trefoil head to the right of the fireplace. The house is traditionally said to have been built on to the SW corner of the church (qv) in 1422 as a parsonage. The visible evidence points to a remodelling in the C16. (The Church of All Saints, Bristol: Bristol).

Listing NGR: ST5887573014

External Links

• Wikidata Q26571355

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