Description

BRISTOL

ST57SE REDCATCH ROAD, Knowle
901-1/55/1556 (North side)
01/11/66 Convent of the Sisters of Charity

GV II*

Industrial schools, now convent. 1890, dated 1894 on the
hoppers. By JD Sedding, completed and extended to the rear by
his pupil H Wilson. Snecked Lias rubble with limestone ashlar
dressings and timber-framing, brick ridge stacks and plain
tiled hipped roof. W and N blocks with a central courtyard.
Free Tudor Gothic style with Queen Anne Revival details.
Main block is 2 storeys; 6-window range with a left-of-centre
porch and projecting side pavilions. Narrow lancet doorway
with moulded hood, and a square sunken panel above; cornice
and crenellated parapet, raised centre merlon angled forward
and dropping down to form a corbelled niche. The corners of
the porch are chamfered to form plinths above the arch. Inside
the porch, a 3-bay vaulted roof with niches each side,
flat-headed doorway with a cavetto architrave.
The walls either side are rubble to the ground floor and close
framing to the first, wide mullioned and transomed Ipswich
windows on scrolled brackets with leaded casements: 11-light
ground-floor windows, 2 eaves dormers over with sunken windows
between with tiled canopy below. The left-hand pavilion is a
2-storey 2-window range. 2 tile-hung gables each with 2-light
mullioned windows; left-hand end set back. The right pavilion
is 3 storeys, 2-window range. 2 full height canted bays with
4-light middle windows and a rusticated panel between the
floors, full-width slated canopy over bays, framed and
rendered gable, upper part jettied. Rear refectory building in
similar style by Wilson 1894.
INTERIOR: many period details survive including fireplaces
with Bristol Delft tiles, S courtyard passage with deep,
stone-hooded fireplace, unmoulded windows and foliate plaster
ceiling; ovolo stopped beams on cyma corbels in the main front
room.
An important example of Sedding's work, and of an educational
building in this style.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 396).

Listing NGR: ST5993670856

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17552973

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