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St Philip and St Jacob

St Philip And St Jacob

Broadmead

Bristol

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 30 November 2022 to amend the description, remove superfluous source details from text and to reformat the text to current standards ST5973 901-1/40/298 BRISTOL TOWER HILL (east side) Church of St Philip and St Jacob 08/01/59 II* Church.

Architectural Features

Early C13 chancel, nave

lower tower, mid C15 north chancel aisle and upper tower, nave altered 1764, north and south stair turrets to the nave, north porches and refenestration of 1836

Three bay south side of chancel has C15 two-light square-headed windows with cinquefoil ogee-heads.

small C17 panelled south door has a four-centred arch in a slightly projecting doorcase, with a drip mould above, and a large quatrefoil window with a hoodmould

C15 belfry has louvred two-light windows with a central mullion and a clock above, a crenellated parapet with pinnacles and a panelled octagonal spirelet to the stair turret.

INTERIOR: a raised chancel with a C19 marble panelled reredos, three blind four-centred arches to the north with half-round shafts and a narrow soffit of trefoil panels, and the base of a winder stair to the former rood screen

the west pier is hollowed for a pulpit stair.

Fine waggon roof, with bosses, on carved corbels, similar ones in the south aisle

FITTINGS: Laudian fittings including a fine pulpit and sounding board of 1631 having a moulded octagonal stone base with a two-tier oak top of arched panels, with a dentil cornice and caryatids at the angles

a fine square font cover dated 1623, having two tiers of open arched sides and a top of eight brackets to a finial, on a Norman font with a square scalloped basin

MEMORIALS: chancel: tablet of 1722 by Gilbert Barcroft originally in tribute to his two children.

Chapel aisle: C14 head of a knight built into the wall

wall monument to Richard Nelms d. 1789, a square base surmounted by a pyramid with a classical figure in a panel, with drapes above.

A similar wall monument to John Foyle d. 1771, a moulded panel with balls on the sides, beneath a pyramid with head reliefs, by James Paty Jnr.

At the west end is a large wall monument to Henry Merrett d. 1692, a marble aedicule with barleysugar columns and Corinthian capitals, a swan neck pediment containing a swagged segmental plinth and a cartouche, and in the centre is a half figure within an oval wreath, with skulls beneath and an apron.

Various hatchments in the nave, a book of the Ten Commandments c1700 above the tower door, and a carved coat of arms of Queen Anne above the west porch.

Glass: Day memorial window, 1856.