Buckingham Baptist Chapel

Heritage listing

Details BRISTOL ST5773SW QUEEN'S ROAD, Clifton 901-1/8/955 (North side) 08/01/59 Buckingham Baptist Chapel (Formerly Listed as: QUEENS ROAD (North side) Buckingham Chapel) II* Chapel. 1842. By RS Pope. Limestone ashlar, roof not visible. Apsidal nave and SE chapel. French Gothic Revival-style with Decorated Gothic Revival details. 3-bay apse below the nave gable has a central 3-light window with a gable hood, rising through a course of weathering, and a parallel pointed parapet; the chapel has a segmental-arched door within a pointed arch and steep gabled hood; the nave gable has a rose window of 6 trefoils below a weathered band and parapet; a similar door, raking weathering and parapet to the N side. 5-bay N elevation, each with a 3-light Geometrical window in a gable hood and blind, traceried tympanum; buttresses with weathered tops and diagonally-set pinnacles, with a weathered band and an open parapet of cusped triangles. S elevation as the N. Steep W gable has octagonal corner turrets on square plinths, with slender shafts attached to the corners rising to a band of quatrefoil panels; above a course of weathering is a spirelet faced with blind gableted panels; the main front has 3 arches in gable hoods, the taller central one of 2 orders with a hood almost twice the height of the flanking pair; within the central arch are doorways with deeply cusped trefoil arches to a trumeau, with a quatrefoil on the tympanum and blind tracery inside the hood, and doors with elaborate strap hinges. Either side of the centre hood is an arcade of 10 trefoil-headed niches in gable hoods, beneath a shallow arcade with trefoil-headed panels which flanks a rose window; a weathered band rises above the rose, parallel with the steeply pitched gable, which has an arcade of raised trefoil

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.