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Bristol and Exeter Building

A Grade II* Listed Building in Bristol, City of Bristol

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Latitude: 51.4487 / 51°26'55"N

Longitude: -2.5817 / 2°34'54"W

OS Eastings: 359669

OS Northings: 172351

OS Grid: ST596723

Mapcode National: GBR CCM.1J

Mapcode Global: VH88N.6VH9

Plus Code: 9C3VCCX9+F8

Entry Name: Bristol and Exeter Building

Listing Date: 4 March 1977

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1209608

English Heritage Legacy ID: 380660

ID on this website: 101209608

Location: Box Makers Yard, Bristol, BS1

County: City of Bristol

Electoral Ward/Division: Central

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Bristol

Traditional County: Somerset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Bristol

Church of England Parish: St Mary Redcliffe with Temple, Bristol and St John the Baptist, Bedminster

Church of England Diocese: Bristol

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BRISTOL

ST5972 TEMPLE GATE
901-1/42/290 (North East side)
04/03/77 Bristol and Exeter Building

GV II*

Railway station, now offices. 1852. By SC Fripp. For the
Bristol and Exeter Railway Company. Limestone ashlar with a
slate hipped roof. Planned around a central atrium. Jacobethan
style. 2 storeys, basement and attic; 9-window range. A
symmetrical front has a high plinth, projecting ends and a
centre flanked by square towers, and raised quoins and jambs;
paired engaged Doric columns flank a semicircular-arched
doorway with a lozenge-panelled door, and scrolls in the
spandrels; the entablature runs round the building, between
3-light mullion and transom windows to the wings and centre,
2-light in between and one-light to the tower; Dutch gables to
the front and end gables, which have wide bays with
first-floor oriels; the 3-stage towers have circular clock
panels to the top stage and leaded ogee domes; ridge stacks
with linked, diagonally-set stacks. INTERIOR: a large, top-lit
central atrium has a cantilevered stone open-well stair with
scrolled cast-iron balusters and square newels, doorcases with
round-headed arches, keys and floating cornices, and a
second-floor balcony with rectangular Ionic columns to the
lantern. HISTORICAL NOTE: built by the Bristol and Exeter
Railway Company, whose train shed stood on the site of the
current Temple Meads station (qv). Graded for its historic and
architectural interest as part of an outstanding group of
railway buildings.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 348).


Listing NGR: ST5966972351

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