Description

BRISTOL

ST67SW STRETFORD ROAD, St George
901-1/56/1846 (South side)
04/03/77 Church of St Ambrose

GV II

Church. 1912-13. By WV and AR Gough. Squared red Pennant
rubble with limestone dressings and tile roof.
PLAN: aisled nave with S tower and porch.
EXTERIOR: Free Gothic Revival style. Irregular limestone
quoins and rubble arches above the openings. E gable has a
window with Perpendicular-style tracery and blind panels at
the bottom; clasping rubble pilasters with angle buttresses,
terminating in crenellated pinnacles with spirelets, and cross
finial. 9-bay N aisle has 2-light windows linked by hood
bands, separated by buttresses with square, panelled,
crenellated caps. Clerestory has segmental-arched windows and
buttresses to a parapet with crenellated turrets and spirelets
at either end. 2-storey SE chapel has chamfered mullion
windows and a S gable with 3-light windows separated by a wide
string. S aisle as the N.
3-stage tower in the centre of the S side has corner
buttresses and a doorway with rounded reveals; above it a
dragon-head corbel bears a slender, diagonally-set buttress;
louvred belfry windows with blind panelling, corbel table and
a crenellated parapet with pinnacles. W narthex has side
doors, buttresses and a crenellated parapet, and a central
doorway flanked by detached shafts; tripartite
segmental-arched W window, with thick mullions to buttress
pinnacles. Over the chancel arch is an octagonal leaded
lantern with a small dome.
INTERIOR: wide chancel of 3 bays divided by moulded pilasters
on carved corbels. 3 sedilia. 7-bay nave of pointed arches on
shafts with attached shafts to plain capitals, with continuous
half-shafts to the wagon-vaulted nave roof; 3 arches with
rounded reveals lead to the narthex.
FITTINGS: stone pulpit, altar rail and lectern.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 329).

Listing NGR: ST6186573956

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26504062

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide