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St. Matthews Road, BRISTOL, BS6 5TU

This trio of houses with fancy gables are divided into flats. "An unusual picturesque silhouette to a standard attached house plan" https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1207757 .

A villa divided into three, almost opposite the junction with Cotham Road.

The blocks shown in Image] and Image], from across the junction with Cotham Road.

Cotham Road swings west a few metres along. The shops in view are in Cotham Road South. The limestone obelisk is one of a pair at the turn in to Cotham Park. A display in Bristol Museum and Art Gallery explains: "A pair of obelisks made of White Lias [limestone] with the upper surface of Cotham Marble used as naturally 'vermiculated' blocking. Many weathered blocks have had to be replaced with carved vermiculation." A closer look at Cotham Marble is Image The obelisks marked the entrance to Cotham Park, "developed by Francis and Richard Fry on the land of Cotham Lodge [after it was] demolished, 1846." They are listed Grade II: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1207692 "White and Blue Lias Limestone The muddy limestones from the top of the Triassic beds and bottom of the Jurassic are generally only used locally, on the outcrop – Horfield, Knowle, Cotham, Keynsham. Many of the beds tend not to weather well."

A road at the junction with Cotham Road South.

The foundation stone of the Church of St. Matthew, Kingsdown was laid on August 26th 1833. The eventual cost of the building was £7,882 and the Church was consecrated on April 23rd, 1835 by the Hon Henry Ryder, Bishop of Lichfield. Pevsner describes it as being typical early 19th. century with a long wide body, tall regular windows of three lights and four centred heads. There is a west tower in perpendicular style containing a peal of eight bells by Jeffries of Bristol.

One of a pair at the entrance to Cotham Park from Cotham Road. They are listed https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1207692 : "square, approx 10m high, with a small panelled plinth, and alternate bands of coursed stone and vermiculated blocks to a pyramidal top".

The original marks have all but faded now, but this stone would have marked the line of the parishes up until around WWII, after which the boundaries were changed.