Market Chambers and Attached Lamp to North Corner
MARKET CHAMBERS AND ATTACHED LAMP TO NORTH CORNER, ST NICHOLAS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207585
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Market Chambers and Attached Lamp to North Corner
- Statutory Address:
- MARKET CHAMBERS AND ATTACHED LAMP TO NORTH CORNER, ST NICHOLAS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207585
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Market Chambers and Attached Lamp to North Corner
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARKET CHAMBERS AND ATTACHED LAMP TO NORTH CORNER, ST NICHOLAS STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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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:
- MARKET CHAMBERS AND ATTACHED LAMP TO NORTH CORNER, ST NICHOLAS 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 58859 72946
Details
BRISTOL
ST5872NE ST NICHOLAS STREET, Centre 901-1/16/666 (North side) 04/03/77 Market Chambers and attached lamp to north corner (Formerly Listed as: ST NICHOLAS STREET (North side) Market Chambers)
GV II
Market and offices. c1849. By RS Pope. Limestone ashlar, rendered first floor, ashlar lateral stacks, roof not visible. Single-depth plan. 2 storeys and basement; 2-window range to St Nicholas Street, 7 to Exchange Avenue. Ground floor has plinth, impost band, deep plat band, moulded first-floor lintel band, cornice and parapet. Built on falling ground toward St Nicholas Street, which has a full basement storey; the doorway in the curved corner has long, reeded consoles to a pulvinated frieze with MARKET CHAMBERS in raised letters, and dentil pediment with a cartouche above crossed branches; inside is a semicircular arch on volute corbels, split key and rocaille spandrels. Ground-floor arcade of semicircular arches with moulded archivolts, and 3-light plate-glass mullion windows; St Nicholas Street end has 2 banded segmental-arched basement entrances below the windows, and the right-hand return has doorways at each end and the middle, with spiked iron gates, and segmental-headed basement openings. First floor has architraves to horned plate-glass sashes. INTERIOR: entrance hall and dogleg stair with uncut string and turned balusters. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached corner former gas lamp with an iron bracket and flared glass top on the N corner. (Gomme A: Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest: 25).
Listing NGR: ST5885972946
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380493
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A, Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest, (), 25
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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