Church Of St Ambrose

BRISTOL

ST67SW STRETFORD ROAD, St George 901-1/56/1846 (South side) 04/03/77 Church of St Ambrose

GV II

Church. 1912-13. By WV and AR Gough. Squared red Pennant rubble with limestone dressings and tile roof. PLAN: aisled nave with S tower and porch. EXTERIOR: Free Gothic Revival style. Irregular limestone quoins and rubble arches above the openings. E gable has a window with Perpendicular-style tracery and blind panels at the bottom; clasping rubble pilasters with angle buttresses, terminating in crenellated pinnacles with spirelets, and cross finial. 9-bay N aisle has 2-light windows linked by hood bands, separated by buttresses with square, panelled, crenellated caps. Clerestory has segmental-arched windows and buttresses to a parapet with crenellated turrets and spirelets at either end. 2-storey SE chapel has chamfered mullion windows and a S gable with 3-light windows separated by a wide string. S aisle as the N. 3-stage tower in the centre of the S side has corner buttresses and a doorway with rounded reveals; above it a dragon-head corbel bears a slender, diagonally-set buttress; louvred belfry windows with blind panelling, corbel table and a crenellated parapet with pinnacles. W narthex has side doors, buttresses and a crenellated parapet, and a central doorway flanked by detached shafts; tripartite segmental-arched W window, with thick mullions to buttress pinnacles. Over the chancel arch is an octagonal leaded lantern with a small dome. INTERIOR: wide chancel of 3 bays divided by moulded pilasters on carved corbels. 3 sedilia. 7-bay nave of pointed arches on shafts with attached shafts to plain capitals, with continuous half-shafts to the wagon-vaulted nave roof; 3 arches with rounded reveals lead to the narthex. FITTINGS: stone pulpit, altar rail and lectern. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 329).

Listing NGR: ST6186573956