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BRISTOL

ST5974 ARLEY HILL, Cotham
901-1/36/1155 (North East side)
04/03/77 Arley Chapel

II

Congregational chapel, now Polish Roman Catholic church. 1855.
By Foster and Wood. Coursed Pennant rubble with limestone
dressings, slate roof and leaded dome. Apsidal cruciform plan.
Italianate style.
A segmentally-curved portico to the W front has Corinthian
columns to an entablature with a dentil cornice; in between
are semicircular arches with volute keys on square responds,
and curved Pennant steps at the base.
The pedimented W gable has clasping rusticated pilaster
strips, a doorway beneath the portico with moulded architrave
and panelled door flanked by narrow windows, and above the
portico a dentil pediment over an oculus with 4 round lights;
above the pediment is a square tower to a large, domed cupola,
with chamfered corners and 3 narrow louvred arches to each
face, the cornice raised over clock faces to each side, and a
cyma dome with finial. The entablature of the portico extends
on pilasters for one quadrant bay each side to the aisles, and
the arch between the pilasters containing a shoulder-arch
doorway below 2 semicircular-arched windows.
Pedimented N transept gable has rusticated pilasters and a
Doric Venetian window, the central arch of which breaks the
cornice of the pediment, and with brackets below on a sill
band which runs along the 6-bay N aisle beneath stilted
semicircular-arched windows with plain architraves and moulded
imposts; a narrow clerestory of linked round windows. S
elevation as N. INTERIOR not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: 2-storey annex to the E end has 3-window
range of semicircular-arched windows, a pronounced impost band
and clasping pilasters.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 384).


Listing NGR: ST5904074295

Source: English Heritage

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