The Market
THE MARKET, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1202292
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- The Market
- Statutory Address:
- THE MARKET, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1202292
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- The Market
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MARKET, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE MARKET, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 58887 72951
Details
BRISTOL
ST5872NE HIGH STREET, Centre 901-1/16/591 (West side) 08/01/59 The Market
GV II*
Market. Entrance 1744-45, by Samuel Glascodine; covered extension 1848-49 by RS Pope, renovated 1883. Limestone ashlar, with glazed roof over nave of market. Axial plan with C19 open plan aisled extension to S facing St Nicholas Street. Mid Georgian style. Entrance from High Street: 2 storeys; 3-window range. A symmetrical front and matching rear, with a central pedimented section set forward containing a semicircular-arched carriageway, impost band, plat band and first-floor sill band, cornice and parapet. Small semicircular-arched doorways each side, with C20 glazing, beneath a Venetian window with Doric pilasters, architraves to 6-pane windows each side, and a well-carved City shield in the tympanum; 2-bay groin-vaulted passage through to the market with octagonal Portland bollards flanking the arch. INTERIOR: 2 sections of covered arcade, the Glass and West Arcades, the N walls formed by The Rummer Public House (qv) and the Exchange (qv); the S walls have ground-floor arcades of semicircular arches with impost band, of 8 windows to the E with blank arcade above containing 6/6-pane sashes, with a right-hand 2-window return. This has C18 shop front with 2 restored bow windows and paired semicircular-arched doorways, beneath wrought-iron canopy and brackets. The W side has 9 arches, matching first-floor arcade with a plain inner arch and cornice. Glazed C19 roof has iron trusses with decorative curves and brackets. Each side is lined with single-storey timber stalls with pilaster strips to a cornice and parapet, with folding doors. C19 South Arcade extension to the S to St Nicholas Street is a single storey; 7-window range. Trapezium-shaped with curved corners, impost band, cornice and parapet raised to the middle, and semicircular-arched openings with keyed moulded archivolts; St Nicholas Street front has a tall central entrance with iron gates, windows each side, and 2 lunettes at each end. Matching 7-window right return and 4-window left return. INTERIOR: square piers to a C20 steel-trussed roof, and wooden stalls. Built following the completion of Wood's Exchange (qv); only the archway is certainly of the original design. Stall numbers are consecutive: Glass Arcade Nos 1, 5, 8, 17 & 20-50; South Arcade Nos 1-22; West Arcade Nos 1-16. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 148; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol: London: 1958-: 420; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 106).
Listing NGR: ST5888772951
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379769
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958), 420
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 148
Ison, W, The Georgian Buildings of Bristol, (1952), 106
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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