Lower Arcade Bristol, England
Listed Building Data
Lower Arcade has been designated a Grade II* listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1202024
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II*
- Date Listed
- 8 January 1959
- Name
- LOWER ARCADE
- Location
- LOWER ARCADE, 1-36, BROADMEAD
- District
- City of Bristol
- Grid Reference
- ST 59085 73372
- Easting
- 359085.0000
- Northing
- 173372.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
BRISTOL
ST5973 BROADMEAD, Broadmead 901-1/40/479 (North side) 08/01/59 Nos.1-36 (Consecutive) Lower Arcade
GV II*
Arcade. 1824-5. By Foster and Oakley. Limestone and Pennant ashlar. Single-depth plan shops flanking an axial arcade. Greek Revival style. Each shop of 2 storeys; 2-window range. Broadmead front has a Pennant plinth below fluted Ionic columns in antis; pilasters flank plate-glass shop fronts either side, below panels, entablature with a dentil cornice, a frieze of palmettes and parapet with half-blind balusters. INTERIOR: columns to an entablature and cast-iron frieze divide the arcade into 9 bays, with a glazed roof divided by panelled sections with lion heads. A fine surviving example of an early shopping arcade, modelled on the Burlington Arcade, Piccadilly, London, and at 600 feet in length, rivalling contemporary arcades in Cheltenham, Bath and London. Originally in 2 sections, the Upper Arcade was destroyed in 1940. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 241).
Listing NGR: ST5908573372
