Former Bristol Baptist College is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. College. 4 related planning applications.

Former Bristol Baptist College

WRENN ID
still-flint-umber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bristol, City of
Country
England
Date first listed
4 March 1977
Type
College
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The former Bristol Baptist College, built between 1913 and 1915, is by Sir G Oatley. It occupies a site excluding No. 45 Woodland Road, which was added around 1960 as the principal's house. The building is constructed of brick with limestone dressings, features lateral stacks, and has a tiled hipped roof. It displays Tudor Gothic Revival and Free Style influences.

The design incorporates an axial plan, with a chapel facing north and three service wings at the rear. It is three storeys high, with a seven-window central block, a stair tower on the left, and a four-window chapel to the right. Symmetrical gables are positioned at each end of the main range, punctuated by 2:3:2 mullion and transom windows; four lights feature on the ground floor, three above. Half dormers with cross windows sit between the gables, with keyed oculi in the gables themselves. A canted bay extends from the left-hand gable on the ground floor, and a large five-sided bay extends from the right-hand gable.

The entrance, located on the left return of the stair tower, features fluted Doric columns supporting an entablature inscribed “FOUNDED 1679,” topped with a strapwork parapet. A Tudor-arched door is set in a moulded frame, leading to railed, studded doors with a small overlight. Tall stair lights are positioned above the entrance and in the front elevation. A three-light mullion window illuminates the attic, and a crenellated parapet tops the building. The chapel features shallow clasping buttresses with gargoyles, while the end elevation displays a full-height canted bay with flanking niches containing statues, sheltered by canopies. Diagonally-set brick stacks are present.

The interior includes a large stair hall, characterized by an open-well stair with an uncut string, blocked column balusters to shallow arches, square newels to a moulded rail, three-quarter panelling, and a balcony around the first floor. A rear axial passage boasts a semicircular vaulted ceiling, while six-panel doors are found throughout.

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