Church Of St Ambrose

The Church of St Ambrose is a Grade II listed building located on Stretford Road in St George, Bristol. It was constructed between 1912 and 1913 by architects WV and AR Gough. The church is built from squared red Pennant rubble with limestone dressings and features a tiled roof.

The design reflects a Free Gothic Revival style, characterized by irregular limestone quoins and rubble arches above the openings. The east gable includes a window with Perpendicular-style tracery and blind panels at the bottom, flanked by clasping rubble pilasters and angle buttresses that culminate in crenellated pinnacles with spirelets and a cross finial. The north aisle has nine bays with 2-light windows linked by hood bands, separated by buttresses topped with square, panelled, crenellated caps. The clerestory features segmental-arched windows and buttresses leading to a parapet adorned with crenellated turrets and spirelets at both ends.

The southeast chapel is two-storey, showcasing chamfered mullion windows and a south gable with 3-light windows divided by a wide string. The south aisle mirrors the north aisle's design. The central tower on the south side is three stages high, with corner buttresses and a doorway with rounded reveals. Above the doorway, a dragon-head corbel supports a slender, diagonally-set buttress. The tower includes louvred belfry windows, blind panelling, a corbel table, and a crenellated parapet with pinnacles.

The west narthex features side doors, buttresses, and a crenellated parapet, along with a central doorway flanked by detached shafts. A tripartite segmental-arched window with thick mullions leads to the buttress pinnacles. Above the chancel arch, there is an octagonal leaded lantern topped with a small dome.

Inside, the wide chancel consists of three bays divided by moulded pilasters on carved corbels, and it includes three sedilia. The nave has seven bays with pointed arches on shafts, featuring attached shafts to plain capitals and continuous half-shafts supporting the wagon-vaulted roof. Three arches with rounded reveals lead to the narthex. The church fittings include a stone pulpit, altar rail, and lectern.