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© Mr Cyril N. Chapman LRPS
IoE Number:
379139
Location:
MORTUARY CHAPEL IN THE CHURCHYARD OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH CLOSE (west side)
BRISTOL, BRISTOL, BRISTOL
Photographer:
Mr Cyril N. Chapman LRPS
Date Photographed:
13 October 1999
Date listed:
04 March 1977
Date of last amendment:
04 March 1977
Grade
II
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BRISTOL
ST5678NW CHURCH CLOSE, Henbury
901-1/17/1325 (West side)
04/03/77 Mortuary chapel in the churchyard of
the Church of St Mary
GV II
Mortuary chapel. c1830. Squared coursed Lias with limestone
dressings, stone rear stack and a slate roof. Early English
Gothic Revival style. A small chapel with coped gables and
parapet. 3 stepped lancets in the E end between clasping
buttresses, with a quatrefoil in the steep gable; 3-bay N side
of lancet windows, the middle one with a parapeted gable
projecting slightly between buttresses; the S side has a
central chimney breast to a decapitated octagonal stack;
attached wall at the W end has a pointed doorway beneath a
cornice and parapet. INTERIOR not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE:
Thomas Rickman was working on both the church and nearby
village hall, in squared Lias, at this period, and may have
designed the chapel too.