St Mary Redcliffe And Temple School And Attached Sheds

St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School and attached sheds is a board school built in 1895 by WV Gough. The building features Pennant rubble with Pennant and limestone dressings, brick gable stacks, and a tiled roof with decorative ridges. It has a symmetrical T-shaped plan with a central hall and flanking wings, designed in the Jacobethan style. The structure is two storeys high and has a five-one-five window arrangement. The central block is set back between gabled wings and is framed by tall square, ribbed ventilator stacks in the re-entrant angles, with ground- and first-floor sill bands.

The central block includes two mullion and transom ground-floor windows with elliptical-arched heads and six lights, a large full-width semicircular-arched first-floor window with stone tracery, and a Dutch gable above topped by a bellcote. The wings have similar gables on the returns and above semicircular-arched porte cocheres at the ends, flat-headed windows with ovolo mouldings, a two-light first-floor window over the porte cocheres, tall cross windows in the stair areas of the end gables, and three mullion windows inside these, all featuring sashes with glazing bars.

Inside, there are dogleg stairs leading up to a first-floor hall in the middle block, which has a barrel roof supported by scrolled corbels. Some science rooms retain original cupboards and worktops. An open shed on cast-iron stanchions extends from the right-hand wing to a gable just inside the playground wall, which has a blocked semicircular arch. This school is noted as one of the best-composed of Bristol's Board Schools, showcasing a restrained and rational design that stands out in the context of Gough's more famous works.