Description

BRISTOL

ST5872NE CLARE STREET, Centre 901-1/16/540 (South East side) 04/03/77 Nos.4, 6 AND 8 Abbey Chambers

GV II

Includes: Nos.1, 3 AND 5 BALDWIN STREET Centre. Bank, now offices. 1883. By Frederick Mew, reportedly completed 1897 by RM Drake. Altered 1924 by Benjamin Wakefield. Limestone ashlar, carboniferous limestone doorways, brick and limestone cross-axial stacks, roof not visible. Double-depth plan to a 2-sided wedge-shaped site. Eclectic Italian Renaissance Revival style. 3 storeys and attic; 8-window range. A heavily decorated front and similar rear elevation to Baldwin Street. Pedimented 5-window section set forward with a 3-window left-hand section, divided by square pilasters through a ground-floor fascia and cornice to a modillion cornice. Pilasters are banded on the ground floor to fluted necks and acanthus capitals, and paired fascia consoles; plain above to small segmental pediments over lion heads, fluted necks and carved head consoles beneath the cornice. A large ornate doorway has deep fluted consoles to a 3-centre arch, adorsal Assyrian sphinxes above flank a swan's neck pediment, and brackets each side to a fluted frieze and pediment formed from the cornice, with acroteria; small pedimented name panels on the jambs. C20 shop fronts each side; the left-hand section has distyle-in-antis pilasters decorated as the end ones. Upper floors articulated by attached Corinthian columns to the right and pilasters to the left, with fluted necks. First-floor windows have pilaster jambs and entablature lintels, console pilasters to pediments over the 3 above the doorway, and to the middle of the wing; second floor has pilaster jambs; C20 plate-glass windows. The frieze has small sunken roundels set in wreaths, and acroteria to the shallow pediment, with a low parapet behind and a central stack topped by a segmental pediment. The rear elevation is a 7-window range, with carboniferous limestone doorways at each end and plate-glass shop fronts. The doorways have banded, ovolo surrounds, consoles to shallow pediments and rectangular lights above; upper floors articulated as the Clare Street centre, the first floor has alternate narrow windows with pilaster jambs, and pedimented ones as Clare Street, with second-floor pilaster jambs and wreaths to the entablature, which is dated 1855, 1883 and 1925. Balustrade over windows. INTERIOR: refurbished 1992. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 839).

Listing NGR: ST5864972902

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