St Mary Redcliffe And Temple School And Attached Sheds

BRISTOL

ST315871 STILLHOUSE LANE, Bedminster 901-1/45/388 (East side) St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School and attached sheds

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Board school. 1895. By WV Gough. Pennant rubble with Pennant and limestone dressings, brick gable stacks and tiled roof with decorative ridges. Symmetrical T-shaped plan with a central hall and flanking wings. Jacobethan style. 2 storeys; 5:1:5-window range. The central block is set back between gabled wings, framed by tall square, ribbed ventilator stacks set in the re-entrant angles, with ground- and first-floor sill bands. The central block has 2 mullion and transom ground-floor windows with elliptical-arched heads and 6 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 to the returns and above semicircular-arched porte cochere to the ends, flat-headed windows with ovolo mouldings, a 2-light first-floor window over the portes cocheres, tall cross windows to the stairs inside the end gables, and 3 mullion windows inside these, all with sashes with glazing bars. INTERIOR: dogleg stairs up to a first-floor hall in the middle block, which has a barrel roof springing from scrolled corbels. Some science rooms with original cupboards and work tops. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: an open shed on cast-iron stanchions extends from the right hand wing to a gable just inside the playground wall with a blocked semicircular arch. One of the best-composed of Bristol's Board Schools, in a restrained and rational manner, remarkable in the context of Gough's more famous work. (Gough W V: Building Plans submitted to the Sanitary Committee, BCC: 1895-).

Listing NGR: ST5922872090