South entrance gates and flanking walls to Bristol Zoo is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. Entrance gates. 12 related planning applications.
South entrance gates and flanking walls to Bristol Zoo
- WRENN ID
- south-render-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1977
- Type
- Entrance gates
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
South entrance gates with flanking walls and railings. Built in the mid-C19.
MATERIALS: limestone ashlar gate piers with cast-iron gates.
DETAILS: the south entrance gates comprise a central two-leaf gate with single pedestrian gates to either side. The gates comprise an upper and lower panel of vertically set rectangles with trefoil-shaped ends, with a bottom, middle, and top rail featuring a quatrefoil motif. Above the top rail is a decorative motif known as brattishing. The four octagonal gate piers have octagonal caps with ball finials.
Heraldic painted tile plaques have been added, probably in the mid-C20, to the central two-leaf gate, and feature a shield with two elephant heads above a bottonee cross. Below is a scroll with the biblical quotation from Job 12:7: “ASK OF THE BEASTS & THEY SHALL TEACH THEE”.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the curved flanking walls are of coursed carboniferous limestone with ashlar coping stones. The iron railings feature cylindrical verticals with brattishing above the top rail. The walls sweep up to the terminating piers that are faced in ashlar block.
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