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Knowle Methodist Church

A Grade II Listed Building in Knowle, City of Bristol

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4353 / 51°26'7"N

Longitude: -2.5679 / 2°34'4"W

OS Eastings: 360618

OS Northings: 170852

OS Grid: ST606708

Mapcode National: GBR CGS.4B

Mapcode Global: VH88V.F6S1

Plus Code: 9C3VCCPJ+4R

Entry Name: Knowle Methodist Church

Listing Date: 4 March 1977

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1219263

English Heritage Legacy ID: 380808

ID on this website: 101219263

Location: Upper Knowle, Bristol, BS4

County: City of Bristol

Electoral Ward/Division: Knowle

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Bristol

Traditional County: Somerset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Bristol

Church of England Parish: Knowle St Martin

Church of England Diocese: Bristol

Tagged with: Protestant church building

Description


BRISTOL

ST67SW WELLS ROAD, Knowle 901-1/56/1561 (West side) 04/03/77 Knowle Methodist Church

II

Church. 1904. Snecked Pennant rubble with limestone dressings, tiled roof with copper and shingle details. Cruciform plan with no chancel. Arts and Crafts style. Steeply gabled W end with ashlar bands and an apex cross has a large 6-light window with 2 king mullions and reticulated tracery, and is flanked by angle buttresses to octagonal finials with flared copper caps; in front a gableted porch with a shallow 2-centred arched doorway below a segmental arch with dentils, containing a 2-leaf door with foliate stained glass; flanking parapeted blocks have cinquefoil-headed windows with square heads. N elevation of 3 bays of 2-light windows with reticulated tracery, separated by buttresses, under sprocketed eaves. The banded N transept has a 4-light window. Similar S elevation, and a plain S transept with a spheroid triangular window with trefoils; above the crossing is a steep pyramidal lantern hung with shingles. Attached to the E end is a 2-storey annex with brick gable-end stack: N elevation has cinquefoil-headed windows to the ground floor either side of a wider 3-light window, and 6 flattened trefoil-headed windows to the first floor, with an angle buttress to a bartizon in the angle with the church. INTERIOR: pointed arch below crossing has marble colonnettes with stiff leaf capitals; hammerbeam roof on corbels.

Listing NGR: ST6061870852

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