Description

BRISTOL

ST5873NW WOODLAND ROAD
901-1/4/351 (West side)
04/03/77 Former Church of St Mary the Virgin
(Formerly Listed as:
WOODLAND ROAD
(West side)
Church of St Mary-the-Virgin)

II

Church, now warehouse. 1870-81. By JP St Aubyn. Squared Red
Pennant rubble, rubble and limestone dressings, ashlar stacks
and tiled roof with decorative ridge tiles. Cruciform plan
with NW chapel built on the site of the proposed tower,
chancel and aisled nave. Decorated Gothic Revival style. A
tall, coped E gable has a large 5-light window with Decorated
tracery, and angle buttresses; 4-light N transom window; 4-bay
nave has 2-light windows separated by buttresses and short
3-light clerestory windows; chapel in the W bay with deep,
truncated buttresses and an arched doorway of 4 orders with a
blind traceried tympanum. An inserted late C20 tall, garage
doorway with a flat rubble arch in the third bay. Similar S
elevation has flying buttresses projecting from the S transept
across open arched doorways, and pairs of triple lancets below
the aisle windows, those to the W of the transept either side
of a doorway with strap hinges. Gabled W end has a deep
2-centred arched doorway with 5 orders set in a shallow gable
between 2 buttresses, with a trumeau with a banded granite
shaft, 2 shouldered doorways to doors with strap hinges and a
blank tympanum; above is a large 12-light wheel window, and a
gable finial. INTERIOR: encaustic tiles and marble steps in
chancel, pointed arches to transepts, and a large chancel
arch; 4-bay nave has short round shafts to moulded, pointed
arches and a raised floor; crown-post double rafter roof with
2 tiers of wind bracing and inverted cone corbels; inserted
C20 steel-framed first floor in the nave.

Listing NGR: ST5802473811

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Woodlands Christian Centre at Wikipedia
• Woodlands Christian Centre official website
• Wikidata Q8032930

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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