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Brunswick Chapel

A Grade II Listed Building in Bristol, City of Bristol

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Latitude: 51.4606 / 51°27'38"N

Longitude: -2.5881 / 2°35'17"W

OS Eastings: 359240

OS Northings: 173679

OS Grid: ST592736

Mapcode National: GBR C9H.M8

Mapcode Global: VH88N.3K44

Plus Code: 9C3VFC66+6Q

Entry Name: Brunswick Chapel

Listing Date: 8 January 1959

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1282371

English Heritage Legacy ID: 379031

ID on this website: 101282371

Location: Kingsdown, Bristol, BS2

County: City of Bristol

Electoral Ward/Division: Central

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Bristol

Traditional County: Gloucestershire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Bristol

Church of England Parish: Bristol St Paul's

Church of England Diocese: Bristol

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BRISTOL

ST5973NW BRUNSWICK SQUARE, St Paul
901-1/6/1882 (North side)
08/01/59 Brunswick Chapel

GV II

Congregational chapel, now offices. 1834. By William
Armstrong. Limestone ashlar, render and Pennant plinth and a
slate mansard roof. Neoclassical style. 2 storeys; 3-bays.
Principal front has a portico with 2 pairs of giant Ionic
columns fronting a wall of banded rustication, corner
pilasters and a deep entablature, and a tall parapet with
balustraded sections. Central doorway has a moulded architrave
and bracketed cornice; flanking ground-floor doors, now
glazed, have eared architraves, below semicircular-arched
first-floor windows in matching recesses, both with 12/12-pane
sashes with fixed lower sections. The sides have 5 bays
articulated by paired pilasters to projecting ends, a
first-floor plat band, frieze and cornice, with windows as the
front. INTERIOR completely modernised late C20 with the loss
of most period details. Formerly with a gallery to 3 sides
with a central pulpit to the back wall.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 242; An Inventory of Nonconformist
Chapels...in Central England: Stell C: Gloucestershire:
London: 1986-: 64).


Listing NGR: ST5924073679

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