Clifton College, Victory Arch is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. War memorial, gateway. 4 related planning applications.

Clifton College, Victory Arch

WRENN ID
south-frieze-plum
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bristol, City of
Constituency
Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 March 1977
Type
War memorial, gateway
Address
Clifton College, Victory Arch, College Road
OS grid reference
ST 569 738
Coordinates
51.46153, -2.62118
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Victory Arch is a World War I memorial gatehouse located at Clifton College in Bristol, built in 1922 by Charles Holden. The structure is made of limestone ashlar and squared Brandon Hill Grit rubble, featuring a single-depth plan with two storeys and a two-window range. The gatehouse is symmetrical, with an open two-centre archway that has rubble spandrels leading to the parapet. There are small pedestrian arches on either side and 2-light windows above them. An octagonal stair turret rises at the rear right. The archway includes a quadripartite vault and two-leaf gates that sweep down to the centre. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Clifton College, Victory Arch receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2004
  • Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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