Southville Community Centre

BRISTOL

ST315871 BEAULEY ROAD, Bedminster 901-1/45/364 (North side) 30/05/86 Southville Community Centre (Formerly Listed as: BEAULEY ROAD Ashton Park Lower School including walls, railings, gates & caretaker's house)

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Board school, now community centre. c1895. By Edward Gabriel. For Bristol School Board. Brick with yellow brick bands, limestone dressings, brick lateral stacks and tiled gable roof. H-shaped single-depth plan with classrooms round a central hall. Subdued Flemish Renaissance style. A symmetrical front has 3 coped gables to the ends with yellow brick bands and mullion and transom casement windows. A central parapeted entrance block has an ashlar doorcase with a segmental pediment, 2-leaf C20 door, and flanking 3-light windows. Gables each side have large tripartite windows below panels with curved brackets to an aedicule and shell hood niche. Larger central hall gable behind has a large semicircular-arched window with a label, and corner stacks. Matching rear elevation. Side elevations have projecting gables with tripartite windows under a cornice. Right-hand rear block has a large square lantern with a tented roof to an open cupola and finial. Left-hand rear wing has paired gables. INTERIOR: 4-bay hammer beam roof to the hall with turned pendents. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: perimeter walls and wrought-iron railings, with overthrow arches to gateways indicating opposite BOY and GIRL entrances. A formally-arranged school plan, possibly the first in the Bristol Board manner of classrooms round a central hall.

Listing NGR: ST5800971826