Handel Cossham Memorial Hospital

BRISTOL

ST67SW LODGE ROAD, Fishponds 901-1/56/1268 (West side) 04/03/77 Handel Cossham Memorial Hospital

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Hospital. 1905-07. By F Bligh Bond. Squared red Pennant rubble with limestone dressings, Bath stone ashlar, green slate roof with chimneys in front of the ridge. L-shaped plan. Queen Anne style with Edwardian Baroque influences. 2-storeys and attic; 12-window range. The principal block has a central pedimented entrance bay, with banded rusticated ground floor, running into a Gibbs surround to round-headed door with a shouldered architrave and pronounced, grotesque key. Above is an open, scrolled pediment containing a keyed oculus with floral carving. First-floor round-headed window with architrave and Gibbs surround, with a bayed balustrade. Modillioned pediment with cartouche, and relief ribbons inscribed HANDEL COSSHAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL 1905. Ground and first-floor windows with shouldered architraves and keys, segmental-arched on first floor, with panelled aprons beneath. Canted bays to the middle of the wings with 4-light windows and parapets. Deep modillion cornice, sprocketed eaves and 2- and 3-light dormers, with side windows and modillion pediments. At the right-hand end is a square tower and a flat-roofed block. In the angle between the 2 wings is an octagonal tower, with a balcony with iron railings, clocks to alternate faces, topped by an octagonal dome surrounded by a balustrade with urns, and a cupola on columns. The left wing has a mansard roof, with a 3-story block behind. INTERIOR: remodelled in the C20.

Listing NGR: ST6423674554