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Going downhill from the junction with Corn Street, other notable buildings include Christ Church with St Ewen, designed and built by William Paty in the late 18th century, a former branch of the Bank of England designed by Charles R Cockerell in Greek Doric style, the Thistle Hotel, Bristol by Foster and Wood in Italian Renaissance, the Guildhall in Gothic style by Richard Shackleton Pope and ...
The Former Bank of England (grid reference) is a historic building at 13/14 Broad Street in Bristol, England.It was built as the site of a branch of The Bank of England. [1]
The Grand Hotel is a hotel in a Grade II Listed Building in Broad Street in Bristol, England. [1] It opened in 1869 and has been visited by several celebrities, including the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. A major refurbishment programme took place in 2017.
The Church of St John the Baptist in Bristol, also known as St John on the Wall, is a historic church in the care of heritage charity the Churches Conservation Trust.The upper church and its medieval vaulted crypt is located at the lower end of Broad Street and is built into the old city's medieval walls.
The earlier Guild Hall in Broad Street Bristol. An earlier guildhall was built for a Guild of Merchants on the site in the 13th century. [2] The current building, which was designed by Richard Shackleton Pope in the Gothic Revival style, was completed in 1846, [1] incorporating fragments of the earlier Guildhall on the site. [2]
The Former Everard's Printing Works is at 37-38 Broad Street in Bristol, England.It has been designated as a Grade II* listed building. [1]It was built in 1900 by Henry Williams, with the Modern Style facade by William James Neatby, [2] who was the chief designer for Doulton and Co., [3] as the main works for the printer Edward Everard. [1]
St Ewen's church was on the north west corner of the medieval cross-roads, opposite Christ Church on Broad Street. A charter of Archbishop Theobald of Canterbury, confirming a vicar called Turstin at the church and threatening that anyone who interfered with the post would be “firmly bound up in the chains of anathema”, is known as the Charter of Theobald or the Curse of St Ewen.
The name of the street was first recorded in 1383 as Brodemede. The name either means "broad meadow" or refers to brodemedes, a type of woollen cloth woven only in Bristol. [1] The area lay just to the north of the town walls of the historic Bristol. In about 1227 Blackfriars was founded as a Dominican priory in the area.