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© Mr Ian Garman
IoE Number:
379494
Location:
BRISTOL SOUTH BATHS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATES, DEAN STREET (north side)
BRISTOL, BRISTOL, BRISTOL
Photographer:
Mr Ian Garman
Date Photographed:
21 August 2004
Date listed:
30 December 1994
Date of last amendment:
30 December 1994
Grade
II
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BRISTOL
ST315871 DEAN STREET, Bedminster
901-1/45/377 (North West side)
Bristol South Baths and attached
railings and gates
II
Public baths. 1929. By CFW Dening. Brick with limestone
dressings and a green glazed pantile hipped roof.
Symmetrically-planned central swimming pool with attached
subsidiary blocks. Neo-Roman style.
2-storey pool and single-storey blocks. Symmetrical NE end has
steps up to a single-storey parapeted lobby, a wide doorway
with an ashlar surround with BRISTOL SOUTH BATHS inscribed in
the lintel and a relief of spread wings; panelled 4-leaf
doors. Steel casements have margin panes and diagonal glazing
bars. Flanking 2-storey stair blocks have a lower hipped roof
in front of the main one, with broad brick pilasters and a
plinth, small ground-floor and larger first-floor windows set
in shallow recesses; the inside walls have Venetian windows in
ashlar surrounds.
The main gable of the pool is truncated with a coped parapet,
and an ashlar Venetian window, with panels flanking Bristol's
coat of arms. The road elevation is symmetrical with
single-storey end pavilions, projecting from a 19-window range
between with a pedimented ashlar doorcase and double 3-panel
doors, with a smaller doorcase at the left end. Behind, the
pool has 5 semicircular-arched windows, with impost blocks, in
rectangular recesses, the centre window in ashlar with a
carved panel above. Gabled boiler house to the W has a round
chimney with a coped top. Fine roofs with sprocketed eaves,
and a ridge lantern over the pool.
INTERIOR: entrance hall with stairs either side up to a
gallery, which extends round 4 sides of the pool, with
railings; blue tiling below a dado and to buttresses to a
barrel-vaulted roof. The original baths are in the NW side
range.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached ball finial cast-iron railings
and gates. A carefully massed composition with restrained
decoration and a fine roof modelled on the advanced bath
houses designed by the Goss brothers in London.