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Park Mansions and Attached Front Basement Area Railings

A Grade II Listed Building in Bristol, City of Bristol

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4564 / 51°27'22"N

Longitude: -2.6102 / 2°36'36"W

OS Eastings: 357696

OS Northings: 173221

OS Grid: ST576732

Mapcode National: GBR C4J.NS

Mapcode Global: VH88M.PNYD

Plus Code: 9C3VF94Q+HW

Entry Name: Park Mansions and Attached Front Basement Area Railings

Listing Date: 30 December 1994

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1355142

English Heritage Legacy ID: 379996

ID on this website: 101355142

Location: Victoria Park, Bristol, BS8

County: City of Bristol

Electoral Ward/Division: Clifton

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Bristol

Traditional County: Gloucestershire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Bristol

Church of England Parish: Clifton Christ Church with Emmanuel

Church of England Diocese: Bristol

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Description


BRISTOL

ST5773SE MERIDIAN PLACE, Clifton 901-1/9/891 (South East side) Nos.18-23 (Consecutive) Park Mansions and attached front basement area railings

GV II

Terrace of 6 houses. 1835. Perhaps by Henry Goodridge. Render with limestone dressings, party wall stacks, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Neoclassical style. Each of 3 storeys, basement and attic; 1-window range. A plain terrace with moulded coping, has 3-storey windowless blocks projecting across the party wall of each pair, with tetrastyle pilastrades with carved capitals to the upper floors on shallow corbels, to a moulded frieze and pediment, and carved lion heads to the returns; 18/19 has a third storey added in place of the pediment. Openings have splayed surrounds: 2 doorways to the middle, blocked to No.18, single-window range to the sides of the middle, to 6/6-pane sashes. Nos 18 & 19 have fourth storey added. INTERIOR: entrance lobby, to a central passage and top-lit open dogleg stair with turned balusters; modillion cornices, and 6-panel doors. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron spear-headed front basement area railings. A striking and unusual design. Goodridge was the architect of the original Pro-Cathedral (qv) to the rear of Meridian Place. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 257).

Listing NGR: ST5769673221

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