Description

BRISTOL

ST6176 BELL HILL, Stapleton
901-1/29/1937 (West side)
27/09/91 Purdown Hospital, Castle and screen
wall
(Formerly Listed as:
BEECH HILL, Stapleton
Tower and screen wall, Purdown
Hospital)

II

Tower and screen wall. Mid C18. By Thomas Wright. Random
Pennant rubble and dressings. Round tower. 2 set-backs
articulate the tower; varied fenestration. Lancet doorway with
double door and barred tympanum, and lancet windows with
alternate blue and red voussoirs with tooled faces. Screen
wall to left to the base of a second tower, with 2 crossed
arrow slits low in the wall, now incorporated into a late C19
house (not included). INTERIOR not inspected. Probably an
eye-catcher as part of Thomas Wright's landscape park for
Stoke Park House, and related to his Ragged Castle at
Badminton. Illustrated by Loxton c1900.
(Loxton S: Bristol: 1900-1910: W 1387; Bristol As It Was:
Bristol's Suburbs Long Ago: Bristol: 255).

Listing NGR: ST6137776207

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26499577

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