Southville Primary School And Attached Railings And Gates

Southville Primary School, built in 1907 by Henry Dare Bryan, is a board school that now serves as a primary school. It is constructed of purple brick with rubbed brick dressings and features a tiled cross-gabled roof. The building follows a central hall plan, with classrooms located at the ends and sides, and is designed in the Queen Anne style.

The school is a single-storey structure with a nine-window side range. It has Dutch gables at the ends and in the middle of the hall sides, paired to the sides and west end of the classrooms. A cornice band runs along the hall, with parapets surrounding the building. The hall gables are adorned with tripartite windows that have moulded brick eared architraves, and the central raised semicircular-arched windows feature a key and console cornice, flanked by 6/6-pane and central 9/9-pane sash windows in exposed frames. Above each window is a rocaille terracotta cartouche.

The main entrance is located at the right-hand end of the south side and includes a well-crafted rubbed brick doorcase with attached Doric columns, an entablature, an open pediment, and a semicircular-arched doorway with a fanlight and a two-panel door. Each gable has tripartite classroom windows with taller central segmental-arched heads, flanked by 4/4-pane and central 9/9-pane sashes.

The east end features flat-roofed blocks with lower outer sections, paired semicircular-arched windows on the left, and 20th-century plate-glass on the right. The central two-bay section has rubbed brick pilasters leading to a cornice, with windows that have keys and 6/6-pane sashes, flanked by 4/4-pane sashes. The hall is topped with a louvred cupola that has a wrought-iron weather vane.

The property also includes attached wrought-iron railings that enclose yards to the north and south, featuring bracketed piers and three gateways with metal piers and gates that have arched middles and oval panels. This school is a well-composed and detailed example of the later Bristol Board style.