Former Church Of St Mark

BRISTOL

ST6074 ST MARK'S ROAD, Easton 901-1/37/1242 (East side) 01/11/66 Former Church of St Mark (Formerly Listed as: ST MARK'S ROAD Church of St Mark)

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Church, now flats. 1848. By Charles Dyer. Converted 1991. Pennant rubble with limestone dressings and ashlar spire, and a slate roof. Apsidal nave with a N tower. Norman Revival style. Rounded apse has 6 semicircular-arched windows on attached columns, linked by a sill band. 5-bay N elevation has c1990 flat-headed ground floor windows with zigzag patterned lintels, and round-arched first-floor windows, with scalloped capitals and slender colonnettes, separated by buttresses; 3-stage tower one bay from the W has angle buttresses and N round-arched door similar to the first-floor windows; lancet belfry windows formed by interlacing arcade of round arches with chevron archivolts and colonnettes, beneath a stepped ashlar pyramid roof with mythical animals on the ridges. Similar 5-bay S elevation. The W end has a round-arched doorway with chevron-moulded archivolt within a weathered, projecting porch, below a large wheel window with 10 spokes to a central round light; Celtic crosses at either end of the nave. INTERIOR not inspected. (Crick C: Victorian Buildings in Bristol: Bristol: 1975-: 20; Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 296).

Listing NGR: ST6086974358