Description

BRISTOL

ST5771 ASHTON GATE ROAD, Bedminster
901-1/44/361 (South West side)
04/03/77 Ashton Gate Junior School and
attached perimeter walls, gates and
railings
(Formerly Listed as:
ASHTON GATE ROAD
2 school buildings at Ashton Gate
Primary School)

GV II

Board school, now junior school. 1876, 1881. By F Bligh Bond
and CF Hansom. Squared Pennant rubble, freestone dressings,
double Roman and fishscale tiles, decorative ridge tiles.
Main block with projecting wings at both ends and 1881 block
added at right angles on North Road end. Free Gothic style. 2
storeys; 5 bays. Uneven quoins, plinth and weathered plat
band.
Principal SE elevation to Greenway Bush Lane with playground
in front has a right-hand wing with large lancet and tracery;
to the left 2 buttresses frame tall mullioned windows and a
wide panel with the inscription BRISTOL SCHOOL BOARD/ ASHTON
GATE SCHOOL 1876, with a tile hung dormer above; left-hand
entrance wing has pointed doorway with moulded archivolt and
octagonal turret to left with fishscale tiles.
The NE Ashton Gate Road elevation faces directly onto the
road; left hand door into yard has Caernarvon arch and
basketwork brick infill to lancet above. Plainer right hand
door. 1-, 2- and 3-light windows with 2-centred heads, gable
to main hall has stepped window with trefoil heads and
barge-boards; wide tile-hung dormer incorporating with 3
smaller ones to right.
Chapel in E corner, of single storey; 3-window range with a
12-foil rose window in the gable. The quatrefoil-headed
windows rise through the eaves into dormers. Laundry block in
SE corner and open arcaded coal store.
1881 block to North Street forms a large hall with 2
projecting classroom blocks to the SW. Single storey, with
varied fenestration of mullioned and transomed windows with
4-centred heads; the hall is top lit by a rectangular lantern
with a steep turret roof. The roofs have a horizontal pattern
of glazed tiles. Garage range to S side: 6-bay range, open to
the front with braced posts and decorative ridge tiles.
INTERIOR: plain wainscotting and fireplaces with Gothic
moulded surrounds; that in end of 1881 hall has stout moulded
columns supporting a wide Tudor chimneypiece. The main hall
and chapel roofs have extended braced collar trusses on carved
corbels.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached rubble walls, gates and railings
to S, E and W sides.
The largest structure of a very fine group of Board School
buildings.
(Lavar's View of Bristol: Bristol: 1887-).

Listing NGR: ST5738971752

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26571364

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