Description

BRISTOL

ST6276 BLACKBERRY HILL, Fishponds
901-1/30/1261 (North side)
25/04/90 Glenside Hospital Chapel
(Formerly Listed as:
BLACKBERRY HILL, Stapleton
Glenside Hospital)

GV II

Chapel. c1861. Built as part of the Bristol Lunatic Asylum.
Squared Pennant rubble with limestone dressings, a slate roof
and copper lantern. Cruciform plan with N and S porches and E
porte cochere. Gothic Revival style. E end has a low porte
cochere with a weathered and parapeted roof and 2-centred
doorway, below 2 lancets and a rose window within a hoodmould,
an ashlar band to the apex and clasping buttresses; gabled
porch at E end, 4-bay chancel each with a lancet window
separated by a buttress, and corbel table; N transept gable as
the E end, NW chapel gable and 2-bay nave have a hood
enclosing 2 lancets and an oval top window; similar S
elevation has an octagonal stair turret on the W side of the
transept with a decorated ashlar top; the W gable has 3
stepped lancets below a hood, with thin tracery heads, above a
stilted drip; thin octagonal copper-clad lantern over
crossing. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: ST6249676151

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26497679

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)