Bristol Grammar School

Bristol Grammar School is a school building dating from 1879, designed by Foster and Wood. It was extended in 1909 by Sir Frank Wills and again in 1914 by WV Gough. The building is constructed of red rubble stone with limestone dressings, and has a slate roof.

The original 1879 Great Hall is a symmetrical two-storey block of nine bays. It features moulded sills, drip courses, a cornice with gargoyles, and a crenellated parapet with stepped gables. The north entrance block has diagonal buttresses, a Tudor-arched doorway with splayed panelled reveals and a two-leaf panelled door, and a label with head stops and foliate spandrels. Above is a two-storey canted oriel with a moulded base, a central traceried panel, flanking statue niches with canted canopies, and a crenellated top. A narrow, square, three-stage stair turret is positioned to the right. There are three-light mullion and transom windows with ogee heads on the ground floor, and Tudor-arched windows with Perpendicular tracery on the first floor. The rear includes a matching gabled stair block surmounted by a wrought-iron canopy with a square, ogee copper roof. The end gables have large four-centred arched windows with Perpendicular tracery, angel label stops, and a gabled cornice below the parapet.

The 1909 block, built across the south end of the Great Hall, has a road front with three gables to the left of an entrance tower. This tower contains a Tudor-arched door, a tall first-floor mullion and transom window, and a Lombard frieze to a stepped parapet with raised corners. To the right is a six-bay range divided by buttresses and fenestrated with mullion and transom windows. The 1914 cross wing is six bays long, with buttresses featuring crenellated square tops above the parapet. It incorporates first-floor windows with Tudor-arched heads and end gables with tall central first-floor windows with elliptical-arched heads and Perpendicular tracery.

The interior includes a traceried glazed entrance screen leading to a central stair hall, a rear Imperial stair with a stone parapet and wrought-iron upper balusters with a brass rail. The Great Hall on the first floor features an arch-braced king post roof with through purlins, pointed wind braces and attached shafts to large angel corbels holding shields. Panelled lower walls contain raised seats with canopies. An organ loft is positioned above the entrance. The original building contained the Great Hall and nine classrooms.