Walls, Lodge And Gates To Queen Elizabeth'S Hospital

BRISTOL

ST5773SE BERKELEY PLACE 901-1/9/10 (East side) 04/03/77 Walls, lodge and gates to Queen Elizabeth's Hospital

GV II

Walls, lodge and gates. 1844-47. By Thomas Foster and Son. Squared red rubble, limestone dressings, cross axial ashlar stacks and a pantile roof. Single-depth plan. 2 storeys; 2-window range. The lodge has an asymmetrical road elevation, the right-hand section set forward with an arrow slit to the ground floor, canted oriel above with moulded base and weathered top, a central cross window with cast-iron lattice casements, and an overhanging crenellated parapet. Left-hand section has a first-floor 9-light window, with a label stepped up over the blind central window. The sections are divided by a large ashlar chimney range with 4 round stacks and crenellated tops. The doorway in the right return has an open timber porch with pierced tracery panels under a pitched roof. The ashlar gateway has a moulded Tudor-arched carriage arch, and a similar pedestrian archway to the left with a label mould with king and queen head stops and foliate spandrels; above is a scroll inscribed FOUNDED BY JOHN CARR MDCXXXVI. Crenellated parapet with a central heraldic panel, and to the right a square, crenellated turret. Good wrought-iron 2-leaf gates with raised centre and pierced panels. The perimeter wall with narrow buttresses extends approx 80m N, and 100m S.

Listing NGR: ST5773773062