Buckingham Baptist Chapel
BUCKINGHAM BAPTIST CHAPEL, QUEEN'S ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1218249
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Buckingham Baptist Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- BUCKINGHAM BAPTIST CHAPEL, QUEEN'S ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1218249
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Buckingham Baptist Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- BUCKINGHAM BAPTIST CHAPEL, QUEEN'S ROAD
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:
- BUCKINGHAM BAPTIST CHAPEL, QUEEN'S ROAD
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 57414 73244
Details
BRISTOL
ST5773SW QUEEN'S ROAD, Clifton 901-1/8/955 (North side) 08/01/59 Buckingham Baptist Chapel (Formerly Listed as: QUEENS ROAD (North side) Buckingham Chapel)
II*
Chapel. 1842. By RS Pope. Limestone ashlar, roof not visible. Apsidal nave and SE chapel. French Gothic Revival-style with Decorated Gothic Revival details. 3-bay apse below the nave gable has a central 3-light window with a gable hood, rising through a course of weathering, and a parallel pointed parapet; the chapel has a segmental-arched door within a pointed arch and steep gabled hood; the nave gable has a rose window of 6 trefoils below a weathered band and parapet; a similar door, raking weathering and parapet to the N side. 5-bay N elevation, each with a 3-light Geometrical window in a gable hood and blind, traceried tympanum; buttresses with weathered tops and diagonally-set pinnacles, with a weathered band and an open parapet of cusped triangles. S elevation as the N. Steep W gable has octagonal corner turrets on square plinths, with slender shafts attached to the corners rising to a band of quatrefoil panels; above a course of weathering is a spirelet faced with blind gableted panels; the main front has 3 arches in gable hoods, the taller central one of 2 orders with a hood almost twice the height of the flanking pair; within the central arch are doorways with deeply cusped trefoil arches to a trumeau, with a quatrefoil on the tympanum and blind tracery inside the hood, and doors with elaborate strap hinges. Either side of the centre hood is an arcade of 10 trefoil-headed niches in gable hoods, beneath a shallow arcade with trefoil-headed panels which flanks a rose window; a weathered band rises above the rose, parallel with the steeply pitched gable, which has an arcade of raised trefoils to the parapet; slender pinnacles to the sides and top of the gable. INTERIOR: arched, moulded lateral braces to a ceiling divided by moulded beams with large bosses, a W gallery with stone steps up from the lobby, and a blocked 2-centre chancel arch. A striking composition, contrasting to the classical style of the surrounding villas and terraces which it served, and an '.. unusually important as an exceptionally early and scholarly exercise [in Gothic Revivalist style] for a Baptist church' (Stell). (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 297; Crick C: Victorian Buildings in Bristol: Bristol: 1975-: 21; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol: London: 1958-: 411; An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels...in Central England: Stell C: Gloucestershire: London: 1986-: 62).
Listing NGR: ST5741473244
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380283
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Central England, (1986), 62
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958), 411
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 297
Crick, C, Victorian Buildings in Bristol, (1975), 21
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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