Former Coroner's Court (Originally a Wesleyan school)
Former Coroners Court, Backfields , BS2 8QP
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282422
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Former Coroner's Court (Originally a Wesleyan school)
- Statutory Address:
- Former Coroners Court, Backfields , BS2 8QP
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- Date:
- 1999-10-03
- Reference:
- IOE01/00449/08
- Rights:
- © Mr Cyril N. Chapman. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282422
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Former Coroner's Court (Originally a Wesleyan school)
- Statutory Address 1:
- Former Coroners Court, Backfields , BS2 8QP
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:
- Former Coroners Court, Backfields , BS2 8QP
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 59124 73766
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13 March 2024 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards
ST5973NW
901-1/6/2019
BRISTOL
Stokes Croft
BACKFIELDS (North side)
Former Coroner's Court
(Formerly listed as Coroner's Court)
II
School, court and mortuary at time of listing. 1857-8, converted mid C20. By Foster and Wood. Pennant rubble with limestone dressings, ridge stack and a tiled hipped and cross-gabled roof. Single-depth axial plan with a central hall and lower cross wings at each end. Tudor Gothic Revival style. Two storeys; eight-window range.
An asymmetrical front has two tall gables projecting at each end, separated by a parapeted three-window section, with plinth, first-floor drip and corbel table, gableted kneelers to the gables, and angle buttresses to the gables and between the windows.
The right-hand gable has a two-centred arched doorway with hood and C20 glazed door, and two first-floor two-centred arched two-light windows with panel tracery; the left-hand gable has a porch with stepped kneelers, diagonal buttresses and a similar doorway, and at first floor a four-centre arched four-light mullion and transom window with arched heads and panel tracery. Middle section has four-light mullion and transom windows, left-hand gable has four-light four-centre arched mullion and transom windows to first floor.
To the left is a lower gable set forward, with a lower square left-hand porch with a French Empire-style pyramidal roof, open four-centre arched front and left side openings, and four small trefoil-headed openings above, with a steep dormer; the gable has a canted bay with a cross window, and three-light window above. At the left end is a lower two-storey block with a hipped roof and ridge stack.
INTERIOR: extensively modernised; entrance lobby with a stone open-well stair with cast-iron railings and curtail with a twisted newel; the doorway beneath has GIRLS' SCHOOL painted on the arch. Central first-floor hall has braced trusses, obscured by a suspended ceiling. Originally a Wesleyan school.
(Gomme A: Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest: 5).
Listing NGR: ST5912473766
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 378886
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A, Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest, (), 5
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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