Description

BRISTOL

ST5872NE CLARE STREET, Centre
901-1/16/547 (North West side)
01/11/66 Nos.25 AND 27

GV II

Formerly known as: Nos.25 AND 27 Scottish Provident Building
CLARE STREET.
Office. 1903. By Oatley and Lawrence. Limestone ashlar and red
granite, with a leaded dome. Double-depth plan. Edwardian
Baroque style.
2 storeys, attic and basement; 2-window range. A symmetrical
3-sided block has a tall granite plinth with raised bands,
banded ashlar above to a moulded band; paired attached Ionic
columns to upper floors of each elevation to an entablature
and modillion cornice, set forward over the column to open
pediments, separated by splayed, inset corners, with a
parapet, balustrade between the pediments, and an attic drum
with cornice and leaded dome with a stone domed finial.
Entrances to the left-hand end and the right-hand corner have
Tuscan columns, blocked to the height of the plinth,
entablature blocks and segmental pediments, broken back to the
middle containing a pedestal and urn, missing from No.25;
lintel with split key and festoon each side to 12-panel double
doors.
Low basement segmental arches with tall raised voussoirs;
ground-floor windows between the columns have raised surrounds
extending through the moulded band, with split keys and 2
raised voussoirs. Bowed first-floor balconies above to
semicircular-arched windows with coved surrounds and large
split keys rising into the pediments, and festoon. Flat-headed
first-floor windows over the entrances and corners have coved
surrounds. Windows with glazing bars. The dome has
semicircular-arched dormers to each corner, and panelled
leadwork.
INTERIOR: left-hand entrance hall to open dogleg stairs with
column-on-vase balusters, dentil cornices to 6-panel doors,
panelled wainscotting and modillion cornice. A sumptuous and
compressed design owing something to the Radcliffe Camera,
Oxford.
(Mowl T: Bristol, The Last Age of the Merchant Princes:
Bristol: 1991-: 75).

Listing NGR: ST5871772958

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26497753

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Recommended Books

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)