Description

BRISTOL

ST5672NE HOPE CHAPEL HILL, Hotwells 901-1/13/1437 (North side) 08/01/59 Hope Chapel

II

Congregational chapel, now hall. 1786. Possibly by Daniel Hague. Altered, largely refenestrated and extended 1838. Render over Pennant rubble with limestone dressings, hipped slate roof. Hall and N vestry wing. A symmetrical 4-bay S front has clasping pilasters with round-topped sunken panels separated by a lozenge, to a cornice and parapet, raised and pedimented to the centre; 2 central 4-centre arched doorways linked by a hoodmould, with large foliate stops and ribbed doors, beneath two 3-light, and flanking 2-light, windows with cusped, intersecting tracery. 5-bay W elevation of Y-tracery windows with a transom quatrefoil panel. Similar E elevation. Vestry of 1838 has 6/6-pane sash windows. INTERIOR: hall with a balcony on 4 sides with quatrefoil panels, on cast-iron columns with fluted, moulded capitals; organ recess to north end at gallery level; queen post truss roof. Founded by Ladies Hope and Glenorchy for Calvinistic evangelical worship, and linked to Hague by similar window details at St Paul's Portland Square. Extended by a single bay to the N in 1838, when the windows were replaced. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 176; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol: London: 1958-: 412; An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels...in Central England: Stell C: Gloucestershire: London: 1986-: 63).

Listing NGR: ST5690772665

External Links

• Hope Chapel, Bristol at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5899208

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