City Road Baptist Chapel, Bristol
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City Road Baptist Chapel, Bristol
Image: © Derek Harper Taken: 29 Jul 2015
Also shown at http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=57230227 . The church dates from 1861. "W front has a tall central gable with a Lombard frieze, parapet with rope moulding and a central square pinnacle, flanked by clasping buttresses forming small turrets with octagonal pinnacles; a semicircular-arched door of 3 orders has foliate capitals to shafts, foliate decoration to the inner arches and rope and flowers to the outer; shoulder-arch door and CITY ROAD BAPTIST CHAPEL 1862 in the tympanum; a band runs across above the door reading STRIVE TO ENTER IN AT THE STRAIT GATE, below a wheel window with 12 trefoil-headed lights and polychrome voussoirs" http://list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1202082&searchtype=mapsearch
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Image Location
Latitude
51.461958
Longitude
-2.589827