Description

BRISTOL

ST5973NW BACKFIELDS, Stokes Croft
901-1/6/2019 (North side)
Coroner's Court

II

School, now court and mortuary. 1857-8, converted mid C20. By
Foster and Wood. Pennant rubble with limestone dressings,
ridge stack and a tiled hipped and cross-gabled roof.
Single-depth axial plan with a central hall and lower cross
wings at each end. Tudor Gothic Revival style. 2 storeys;
8-window range.
An asymmetrical front has 2 tall gables projecting at each
end, separated by a parapeted 3-window section, with plinth,
first-floor drip and corbel table, gableted kneelers to the
gables, and angle buttresses to the gables and between the
windows.
The right-hand gable has a 2-centred arched doorway with hood
and C20 glazed door, and 2 first-floor 2-centred arched
2-light windows with panel tracery; the left-hand gable has a
porch with stepped kneelers, diagonal buttresses and a similar
doorway, and at first floor a 4-centre arched 4-light mullion
and transom window with arched heads and panel tracery. Middle
section has 4-light mullion and transom windows, left-hand
gable has 4-light 4-centre arched mullion and transom windows
to first floor.
To the left is a lower gable set forward, with a lower square
left-hand porch with a French Empire-style pyramidal roof,
open 4-centre arched front and left side openings, and 4 small
trefoil-headed openings above, with a steep dormer; the gable
has a canted bay with a cross window, and 3-light window
above. At the left end is a lower 2-storey block with a hipped
roof and ridge stack.
INTERIOR: extensively modernised; entrance lobby with a stone
open-well stair with cast-iron railings and curtail with a
twisted newel; the doorway beneath has GIRLS' SCHOOL painted
on the arch. Central first-floor hall has braced trusses,
obscured by a suspended ceiling. Originally a Wesleyan school.
(Gomme A: Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or
Historic Interest: 5).

Listing NGR: ST5912473766

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26571365

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  For the Record
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)