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© Mrs Joy Roddy LRPS
IoE Number:
379482
Location:
OLD CITY GAOL, ENTRANCE WALL AND GATEWAY, CUMBERLAND ROAD (north side)
BRISTOL, BRISTOL, BRISTOL
Photographer:
Mrs Joy Roddy LRPS
Date Photographed:
03 October 1999
Date listed:
08 August 1975
Date of last amendment:
30 December 1994
Grade
II
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BRISTOL
ST5872 CUMBERLAND ROAD, Floating Harbour
901-1/42/1295 (North side)
08/08/75 Old City Gaol, entrance wall and
gateway
(Formerly Listed as:
CUMBERLAND ROAD
Stone screen entrance wall to Old
City Gaol)
II
Entrance wall and gateway. 1832. By RS Pope. Carboniferous
limestone ashlar to head height, and Pennant ashlar above.
Windowless square towers flank a recessed bay with a large
semicircular-arched gateway, with portcullis and iron-clad
doors, and semicircular-arched blind windows each side; above
is a wide rectangular recess and a thin string course. The
entrance to the City Gaol (demolished), designed by HH Seward
in 1816, and restored by Pope after the 1831 riots. It was
closed in 1883.
(Lord J and Southam J: The Floating Harbour: Bristol: 1983-:
116).