Description

BRISTOL

ST5873SE TRENCHARD STREET
901-1/11/301 (North West side)
08/01/59 Chapel House
(Formerly Listed as:
TRENCHARD STREET
St Mary's-on-the Quay School)

II

Catholic church, school, now flats. 1788-90. Gutted 1973,
converted c1980. Stucco with coursed, squared Pennant rubble
plinth and limestone dressings; pantile roof to flats. Late
C20 flats built behind the road and E end facades. Single
storey; 4-window range. A Pennant plinth, C20 coping, to
2-centre openings, a right-hand archway to a flagged passage,
with a stained-glass overlight, windows with Y-tracery, above
the door and larger to the right. The right return has a wide,
shallow bow, with 2 small C20 windows. INTERIOR not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the first Catholic church built in Bristol
after the Reformation. Had a simple interior with E apse,
formerly with a cornice and double doors.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 176).

Listing NGR: ST5853073092

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26580160

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  For the Record
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback