Southville Primary School And Attached Railings And Gates

BRISTOL

ST315871 MERRYWOOD ROAD, Bedminster 901-1/45/382 (South West side) Southville Primary School and attached railings and gates

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Board school, now primary school. 1907. By Henry Dare Bryan. Purple brick with rubbed brick dressings and tiled cross-gabled roof. Central hall plan with classrooms to ends and sides. Queen Anne style. Single-storey; 9-window side range. Dutch gables to ends and middle of hall sides, paired to sides and W end of classrooms. Cornice band to hall, parapets all round. Hall gables have tripartite windows with moulded brick eared architraves, key and console cornice to central raised semicircular-arched windows, with flanking 6/6-pane and central 9/9-pane sashes in exposed frames. Above each is a rocaille terracotta cartouche. Main entrance to the right-hand end of the S side, a good rubbed brick doorcase with attached Doric columns to entablature blocks, open pediment, semicircular-arched doorway with fanlight and 2-panel door. Tripartite classroom windows to each gable have taller central segmental-arched heads, flanking 4/4-pane and central 9/9-pane sashes. E end has flat-roofed blocks with lower outer sections, paired semicircular-arched windows to the left, C20 plate-glass to the right, and central 2-bay section with rubbed brick pilasters to a cornice, windows with keys and 6/6-pane sashes and flanking 4/4-pane sashes. The hall has a louvred cupola with a wrought-iron weather vane. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached wrought-iron railings enclosing yards to north and south with bracketed piers, 3 gateways with metal piers and gates with arched middle and oval panels. A well-composed and detailed school in the later Bristol Board style. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 395).

Listing NGR: ST5811971766