Former Coroner's Court (Originally a Wesleyan school) is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 December 1994. School, court, mortuary. 3 related planning applications.
Former Coroner's Court (Originally a Wesleyan school)
- WRENN ID
- hidden-soffit-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 December 1994
- Type
- School, court, mortuary
- Address
- Former Coroner's Court (Originally a Wesleyan school), Former Coroners Court, Backfields, BS2 8QP
- OS grid reference
- ST 591 737
- Coordinates
- 51.46138, -2.58976
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building, originally a Wesleyan school constructed between 1857 and 1858, was later used as a coroner's court and mortuary. Designed by Foster and Wood, it is built of pennant rubble with limestone dressings, featuring a tiled hipped and cross-gabled roof and a ridge stack. The structure follows a single-depth axial plan with a central hall and lower cross wings at each end, executed in a Tudor Gothic Revival style.
The asymmetrical front elevation has two tall gables projecting at each end, separated by a parapeted three-window section. Features include a plinth, a first-floor drip and corbel table, gableted kneelers, and angle buttresses on the gables and between the windows. The right-hand gable has a two-centred arched doorway with a hood and a modern glazed door, alongside two first-floor two-centred arched two-light windows with panel tracery. The left-hand gable presents a porch with stepped kneelers, diagonal buttresses, and a similar doorway, with a four-centre arched four-light mullion and transom window above, featuring arched heads and panel tracery. The central section incorporates four-light mullion and transom windows; the left-hand gable displays four-light, four-centre arched mullion and transom windows to the first floor.
To the left is a lower, projecting gable with a lower square porch displaying a French Empire-style pyramidal roof, open four-centre arched front and left side openings, and four small trefoil-headed openings above a dormer. The gable also features a canted bay with a cross window and a three-light window above. A further lower two-storey block sits at the left end, incorporating a hipped roof and ridge stack.
The interior has been extensively modernised. The entrance lobby contains a stone open-well stair with cast-iron railings, a curtail with a twisted newel, and a doorway with the inscription "GIRLS' SCHOOL" painted on the arch. The central first-floor hall contains braced trusses, however these are largely obscured by a suspended ceiling. The building's original use was as a Wesleyan school.
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