St Nicholas Chambers

BRISTOL

ST5872NE ST NICHOLAS STREET, Centre 901-1/16/654 (North side) 04/03/77 Nos.6-12 (Even) St Nicholas Chambers (Formerly Listed as: ST NICHOLAS STREET Nos.6-10 (Even) St Nicholas Chambers, Nos.1 and 2)

GV II

Terrace of 4 shops and offices. 1867. By Ponton and Gough. Tooled random limestone ashlar with red sandstone dressings, brick party wall and lateral stacks, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Venetian Gothic Revival style. 4 storeys; 8-window range. A symmetrical front has a curved 2-window left-hand end. The front has a parade of three C20 shops set behind quatrefoil cast-iron columns to moulded capitals and fittings in the sides for bars, wide, carved pillows to moulded lintels, and narrower entrances at each end with matching stone responds with sandstone bands and crocket capitals; the curved end has 3 plate-glass windows and a right-hand door with panelled stall riser. Above is a ground-floor cornice, raised plinths, carved and moulded impost bands and cornices to first and 2nd floors, an ornate coved frieze, cornice and parapet. Arcades of 3:2:3 windows; on the first and 2nd floors with square piers to semicircular arches, archivolts with linked circles on the first floor and sunken squares on the 2nd; paired corner windows similar with central attached shafts. 3rd-floor windows have shouldered lintels set in rectangular recesses with chamfered sides. First-floor windows have labels with carved dragon stops, round panels between the arcades with headless busts and foliate spandrels, and dragons in the remaining spandrels. INTERIOR: largely remodelled mid C20. A fine composition, an important element in the streetscape. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 373; Crick C: Victorian Buildings in Bristol: Bristol: 1975-: 44).

Listing NGR: ST5892372962