Former Church of St Mark is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 1966. Former church. 1 related planning application.
Former Church of St Mark
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-mortar-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol East MP: Kerry McCarthy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 November 1966
- Type
- Former church
- Address
- Former Church of St Mark, St Marks Road, BS5 6JH
- OS grid reference
- ST 608 743
- Coordinates
- 51.46683, -2.56471
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former Church of St Mark, now converted into flats, was built in 1848 by Charles Dyer. The building is constructed from pennant rubble with limestone dressings and features an ashlar spire, topped with a slate roof. Designed in the Norman Revival style, it has an apsidal nave and a north tower. The rounded apse includes six semicircular-arched windows on attached columns, connected by a sill band.
The north elevation has five bays, featuring flat-headed ground floor windows from around 1990 with zigzag patterned lintels, and round-arched first-floor windows adorned with scalloped capitals and slender colonnettes, separated by buttresses. The three-stage tower, located one bay from the west, has angle buttresses and a north round-arched door that resembles the first-floor windows. The belfry windows are lancet-shaped, created by an interlacing arcade of round arches with chevron archivolts and colonnettes, topped by a stepped ashlar pyramid roof decorated with mythical animals on the ridges. The south elevation mirrors the five bays of the north side.
At the west end, there is a round-arched doorway with a chevron-moulded archivolt set within a weathered, projecting porch, beneath a large wheel window featuring ten spokes leading to a central round light. Celtic crosses are positioned at either end of the nave. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Former Church of St Mark receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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