Victoria Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. Chapel.
Victoria Chapel
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1977
- Type
- Chapel
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Victoria Chapel is a Methodist chapel dating to 1863, designed by Foster and Wood. It is constructed of polychromatic limestone and sandstone ashlar, with a Pennant rubble basement and east end, and has a slate roof. The building is open plan with a southwest porch and is executed in a French Gothic Revival style, employing structural polychromy.
The chapel is single-storey with a basement. The east end features a rose window with bar tracery. The north elevation has six bays, with two depressed trefoil windows in the basement, each beneath a relieving arch, and two ground-floor trefoil-headed lights. These are separated by deep buttresses with weathered tops, and a foliate corbel table. A rose window with plate tracery is centrally placed. The west porch has a weathered broach stair tower with paired trefoil windows to each side.
The south elevation is similar, with a two-bay west porch with Pennant steps. The doorway has a hollow-moulded arch with foliate capitals and a hood with king and queen stops. A gabled drip with Tudor flowers and corner gargoyles rises to a parapet with pierced trefoils. The side windows have paired trefoil-headed lights and a cinquefoil rose within a flat polychromatic arch on slender shafts.
The west gable is wide, with set-back buttresses and a central doorway of three orders, the inner to a cusped cinquefoil arch. Either side is a blind arcade of trefoil arches with arrow slits. A drip with Tudor flowers rises into a tall gable hood above the arch, enclosing a traceried tympanum, and intersecting the middle of three tall west windows. These windows have weathered plinths and are of three orders on banded shafts with foliate capitals, which run into the corbel table. Each window has two lights to the sides and three in the centre, with Decorated tracery and nailheads to the arches. Above, five stepped lancets are arranged in the apex, with the second and fourth being blind. A roll-top coping and parapet finial completes the gable, beyond which is a tall copper spirelet.
Inside, the windows have cusped rere arches on foliate corbels, linked by a scrolled ribbon band. The roof is arched-braced on columns to corbels, and there is a gallery at the west end. The fittings are largely 20th century. The building is described as "one of our prettiest 19th century chapels."
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