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 Bristol's Cathedral by mindcrime
Portishead’s music came to my mind again…
Dreams and belief have gone / Time, life itself goes on (“Half Day Closing”)
It’s opened Monday-Saturday 8:00-18:00 and on Sunday 07:20-17:00 and there’s no free entrance Address: College Green, West End, BS1 5TJPhone: 0117 9264879Directions: at the bottom of Park Street, buses 8 and 9 run to College Green at regular intervalsWebsite: http://www.bristol-cathedral.co.uk/
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 The Lord Mayor's Chapel
(St Marks) by KennetRose
Following a spat between the city and the cathedral authorities in the 18th century, the city adopted the church as its own. It is the only church in the UK under the ownership of a local authority, and is used for civic church services through out the year. Leave a Comment Address: College Green
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 Bristol Council House by KennetRose
The city council is Bristol's largest employer , which means that the principal industry of this city of half a million people is administering itself.
The headquarters is this rather impressive building on College Green, with gilded unicorns on the flanking towers. Inside on the entrance floor, the curving corridor with its stone-faced walls appears to go on forever, giving it the feel of an Art Deco space station.
The solid oak chairs in the committee rooms have some kind of conservation order on them and can't be changed. They are also incredibly uncomfortable, so if you are stuck for hours in a tedious meeting of Corporate Services (Contracts) Sub then that's just too bad. Leave a Comment Address: College Green
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 Bristol Cathedral by KennetRose
It's not the greatest of English cathedrals but it's pleasant enough. Only the east end and part of the tower is genuinely medieval, the rest is Victorian restoration. Inside, look out for the Saxon bas relief "The Harrowing of Hell" - quite the nicest thing about it.
On 12 March 1994 I stood outside the west door in the rain to cheer on the first women to be ordained priest in the Church of England. I was also looking out for demonstrations by church conservatives - but the only demo was by Roman Catholics wanting women priests of their own! Leave a Comment Address: College Green
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 by TheLongTone
The most interesting bit of the building is the chapter house, which is the oldest part of the building the public has access to. Unfortunately very difficult to photograph! It's reached via a cloister which has some very ancient fragments of stained glass and, among the other memorial plaques, a particularly unusual and beautiful mosaic Art Nouveau memorial to the choristers who died in the Great War depicting an angel with a halo made of mother-of-pearl.
There's a cafe and a very tranquil little garden tucked away behind the cathedral, reached from the same cloister as the chapter house.
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This isn't a thing to do - not that most things to do tips are - but rather a place to hang out, particularly for skateboarders. Who have claimed a circular paved area at the apex of the green as a place to showcase the fanciest methods of falling off their boards. But the green itself is a nice big area of grass to sit on and do nothing, and, weather permitting, is very well used as such.
It's dominated by the Council House, a spectacularly unsucessful building. Bristol city council's website describe it as 'A unique and dignified civic centre'. Which judgement says more about Bristol City Council than it does abou the building. In this context for 'unique' read 'it's so ugly nobody has built anything remotely like it'. The green is also flanked by Bristol's mediocre cathedral and, more or less next to that, the central library, worthy of a tip in it's own right: the reference library upstairs is a spectacular bit of Edwardiana.
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You always know when spring is in the air because people start gathering on College Green! With the backdrop of the council House and Cathedral there are worse places to sunbathe with your mates!
It's also THE spot for skateboarders so can be a bit hairy at times (they also like to skate down the middle of nearby Park Street when the traffic lights top and bottom are red. Now, that IS a bit heart-in-your-mouth to see!)
I don't mind the skateboarders but there's an ongoing battle to have them evicted. Recently the cathedral complained as the noise of the boards could be heard inside and it was supposedly disturbing the worshippers. Leave a Comment Address: College Green, central BristolDirections: next to the cathedral at the bottom of Park Street
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cathedral by Airpunk
The 19th century saw a large process of rebuilding in expansion. A new nave was finished in 1877, eleven years later two impressive towers were added on the west side. During this reconstruction process, the gothic decorated style was kept. Today, the 19th century structures are domaining, but many parts from the earlier centuries are still preserved.
Please note that there is also a Roman Catholic cathedral in Bristol called Clifton cathedral, which should not be confounded with this one. Leave a Comment
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 Queen Victoria on College
Green by Airpunk
On College Green, you will also find a statue of Queen Victoria (nothing unusual in the UK...). But under this one, a time capsule was found during recent conservation works. The capsule went afterwards to the museum of Bristol, but was not opened. The statue was erected for Queen Victoria's golden jubilee. Leave a Comment Directions: At the western end of the town center, close to the Cathedral and the Council House.
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 by lina112
El College se encuentra antes de subir la cuesta de park street y está muy bién, sobre todo el gran cesped que la gente lo usa para sentarse a descansar y tomar el sol o tomar el lunch ( el almuerzo), los días que el tiempo lo permita. La catedral está al subir Park Street, la torre se ve desde el comienzo de la cuesta. El museo está junto a la catedral y es un museo en el que vas a ver desde animales disecados, a momias traidas de Egipto, y cuadros de varios artistas. Leave a Comment
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