Description

BRISTOL

ST67SW TWO MILE HILL ROAD, St George
901-1/56/1849 (South side)
Church of St Michael

II

Church. 1848, mid C19 N aisle. By E Gabriel. Pennant rubble
with limestone dressings and slate roof.
PLAN: nave with a later N aisle, chancel, NW porch and W
tower. Gothic Revival style.
EXTERIOR: chancel gable has angle buttresses, a small
2-centred arched 3-light window with a small oval window
above. 2-light chancel with buttresses between; raised nave
gable, gabled N aisle with 2-light E window and quatrefoil
above, N elevation with 3 paired windows with buttresses
between and a gabled porch to the W end with a 2-centred
arched doorway. Similar windows to S nave elevation, with a
3-stage tower to the W end with angle buttresses, weathered
bands to each stage, and paired, louvred belfry lights, with a
corbelled band between the top of the buttresses beneath an
ashlar parapet. Clock to north side of tower with gabled hood.
2-centre arched doorway with 3 orders to tower, with battened
door and leaded glazing.
INTERIOR: chancel with 3 sedilia with trefoil arches and
crocketed gables in the S window, hoodmould to the E window,
and corbelled shafts to the cusped arch-braced collar truss
roof, moulded 2-centre chancel arch on painted corbels; 5-bay
N arcade of round shafts with painted moulded stiff leaf
capitals to moulded 2-centre arches; 2-centre W arch to organ
loft.
HISTORICAL NOTE: one of Bristol's 7 Commissioners' churches,
and an advanced Ecclesiological design for its date.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and
Bristol: London: 1958-: 454).

Listing NGR: ST6388973787

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26498231

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