Cutlers' Hall

BRISTOL

ST5973 QUAKERS FRIARS, Broadmead 901-1/40/490 Cutlers' Hall 08/01/59

GV II*

Monastery dormitory, cutlers' guild hall, now offices. Part of the Dominican friary of c1230, converted C16, restored mid C19. Pennant rubble, limestone dressings and pantile roof. First-floor hall plan. 2 storeys; N elevation has a 15-window range: left-hand C20 porch. Ground-floor windows incorporating one paired ogee-headed window, and first-floor C19 lancets with splayed reveals; E end has C13 stepped lancets with round trefoil heads, reportedly moved from the nearby Bakers' Hall (qv); the W end has a C14 two-light window with mouchette quatrefoil head; the mid C19 south elevation has a 9-window range: a left-hand doorway with shouldered lintel and moulded jambs with tulips to the top; 5 ground-floor 2-light windows set in 2-centred arches with foliate corbels and plate tracery, separated by buttresses, and upper C19 paired lancets with blind trefoils above; corbel table. INTERIOR: restored C20 ground floor has 2 fireplaces with wrought-iron fire baskets and C17 fire surrounds, and C13 rere arches to 2 south-facing windows; restored C14 twelve-bay arch-braced collar-beam roof with 2 tiers of pointed-arched wind braces, and c1970 tie beams. Founded as a Dominican Friary, bought by the Cutlers' Guild after the Reformation, and used by the Quakers for a school from 1845 and restored by them in 1869. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 26).

Listing NGR: ST5924973322