Rotunda, Bastion And Connecting Wall Approximately 150 Metres South West Of Goldney House

BRISTOL

ST5772NW CLIFTON HILL, Clifton 901-1/14/786 (South side) 08/01/59 Rotunda, bastion and connecting wall approx 150m south-west of Goldney House

GV II*

Garden house and bastion with connecting retaining walls. 1753-7. Render and brick with limestone dressings, red rubble retaining walls. Gothick style, based on Batty Langley design. Raised round summer house connected to round bastion by a length of raised walk. Buttressed retaining wall; summer house rendered to the lower part, string over the windows and cornice, with a W doorway and 4 south windows with ogee head and moulded surround, 9-pane windows and half-glazed door, 3 round windows set in matching false N windows. Crenellated parapet with ogee merlons. Surrounding brick wall with ashlar blocks. Basement room with shallow dome. INTERIOR: a plain bench to the wall. Built by Thomas Goldney as part of his decorative landscape to the house. Formerly a rotunda of columns to an entablature stood on the surrounding wall. Possibly by either James Bridges or Thomas Paty using Langley's pattern book. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 164).

Listing NGR: ST5733772694