Market Chambers And Attached Lamp To North Corner

Market Chambers and an attached lamp are located at the north corner of St Nicholas Street in Bristol. This building, designed by R.S. Pope and constructed around 1849, serves as a market and office space. It features a limestone ashlar exterior with a rendered first floor and ashlar lateral stacks, although the roof is not visible. The structure has a single-depth plan and consists of two storeys and a basement, with a two-window range facing St Nicholas Street and seven windows along Exchange Avenue.

The ground floor includes a plinth, an impost band, a deep plat band, a moulded first-floor lintel band, a cornice, and a parapet. Built on sloping ground toward St Nicholas Street, which has a full basement storey, the building's curved corner doorway is adorned with long, reeded consoles supporting a pulvinated frieze that displays "MARKET CHAMBERS" in raised letters, topped with a dentil pediment and a cartouche featuring crossed branches. Inside, there is a semicircular arch supported by volute corbels, a split key, and rocaille spandrels. The ground-floor arcade consists of semicircular arches with moulded archivolts, along with three-light plate-glass mullion windows. The St Nicholas Street side has two banded segmental-arched basement entrances below the windows, while the right-hand return features doorways at each end and in the middle, complete with spiked iron gates and segmental-headed basement openings. The first floor is fitted with architraves around horned plate-glass sash windows.

Inside, the entrance hall includes a dogleg stair with an uncut string and turned balusters. A notable feature is the attached corner former gas lamp, which has an iron bracket and a flared glass top located at the north corner of the building.