St Nicholas Chambers

St Nicholas Chambers is a terrace of four shops and offices built in 1867 by Ponton and Gough, located on St Nicholas Street in Bristol. The building is designed in the Venetian Gothic Revival style and constructed from tooled random limestone ashlar with red sandstone dressings, featuring a brick party wall and lateral stacks. The roof is not visible.

The structure has four storeys and an eight-window range, with a symmetrical front that includes a curved two-window left-hand end. The façade features a parade of three 20th-century shops set behind quatrefoil cast-iron columns with moulded capitals. There are fittings on the sides for bars, wide carved pillows under moulded lintels, and narrower entrances at each end with matching stone responds, sandstone bands, and crocket capitals. The curved end has three plate-glass windows and a right-hand door with a panelled stall riser.

Above the ground floor, there is a cornice, raised plinths, and carved and moulded impost bands and cornices on the first and second floors. An ornate coved frieze, cornice, and parapet adorn the top. The windows are arranged in arcades of three, two, and three, with square piers supporting semicircular arches. The first-floor windows feature archivolts with linked circles and sunken squares on the second floor, while paired corner windows have central attached shafts. The third-floor windows have shouldered lintels set in rectangular recesses with chamfered sides.

The first-floor windows are embellished with labels featuring carved dragon stops, round panels between the arcades with headless busts, and foliate spandrels, with dragons in the remaining spandrels. The interior has been largely remodelled in the mid-20th century. St Nicholas Chambers is considered an important element of the streetscape.