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St Mary Redcliffe: St Mary Redcliffe
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  • KennetRose
  • Updated By KennetRose on November 13, 2002
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  • St Mary Redcliffe - Bristol
    St Mary Redcliffe
    by KennetRose
    The church everybody thinks is the cathedral until they know better. With its soaring spire it's a far more prominent landscape than the real cathedral, and it dominates the harbour area.

    The mediaeval Merchant Venturers, banished from within the city walls, built their own church outside the walls just to show who was boss!

    Negotiating the traffic outside can be a nightmare though!

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  • Address: Corner of Redcliffe Hill and Redcliffe Way
  • Directions: A short walk from Temple Meads station.
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    St Mary Redcliffe: grand gothic church
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  • Updated By mindcrime on May 7, 2009
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    Thomas Chatterton wrote “Redcliffe church is the pride of Bristol and the western land”. The truth is that I liked St Mary Redcliffe church more than the cathedral! It is a beautiful Anglican parish church, the second largest in England. I loved the gothic architecture and enjoyed the huge interior although we found funny the xmas tree inside!

    The church was started to built in the 12th century but most of what we see today is from the 15th century. William Edney bade the nice gates at the 18th century and other ironwork too. The 1.200 roof bosses are all hand carved and gilded and now two are the same! If you have binoculars you can enjoy some nice scenes like the crucifixion and the Redcliffe maze. The pipe organ is from 1912 and contains 5000 pipes.

    The church is open 9.00-17.30 (in summer til 20.00) and there’s no entrance fee

  • Address: 12 Colston Parade, Bristol, BS1 6SP
  • Phone: 01179/291487
  • Directions: At the corner of Redcliffe Hill and Redcliffe Way. It’s a short walk from Temple Meads station or 10’ walk from the center through queens square.
  • Website: http://www.stmaryredcliffe.co.uk/
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    St Mary Redcliffe: Bristol's Real Cathedral
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  • By aaaarrgh on October 1, 2006
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    Bristol's Anglican Cathedral is on College Green to the west side of the city centre. It is certainly solid and impressive, the majority built in the late 1800's.

    However, in my opinion, the real award for cathedral-ness should go to St Mary's Church, Redcliffe, 10 minutes walk to the east. Look for the tall spire, almost 300 feet high. It is a splendid fifteenth century masterpiece with many gems of interest, some older and others very modern. The main body of St Mary's is bathed in light from a delicate web of gothic tracery windows. The entire ceiling is interlaced with decoration, covered with gold leaf. Imagine how awe-inspiring this was when it was first built!

    You enter via an unusually shaped North door with intricate stone carving. Inside the church there are tombs and inscriptions and some great stained glass windows. The four-keyboard organ has pipes dating back to 1720.

    In one wing there is an ultra modern 'Chaotic Pendulum' which, it is alleged' represents the unpredictability of God's Earth.

    This is the first church I have visited that gave a funeral service for a cat. Tom, the much loved church moggie, died in 1927 at a ripe age and his grave is in the lawn behind the church.

    Plenty of information in many languages. I encourage you to give a generous donation. A cafe can be found under the church. Church generally open 8.30/9 till 4/5pm depending on season.

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  • Address: Redcliffe Way, Bristol
  • Directions: 10 minutes walk from the old city centre, Redcliffe Way is a busy dual carriageway leading towards the railway station. Look out church's tall spire.
  • Website: http://www.stmaryredcliffe.co.uk/
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    St Mary Redcliffe: St. Mary Redcliffe Church...
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  • Updated By coceng on October 14, 2004
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  • St. Mary Redcliffe Church, Bristol England... - Bristol
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    by coceng
    Holding the map from my guidebook, I wanted to see some great sights around Bristol right away as I would have around 2 hours or so before I had to reach Cheltenham in THE COTSWOLDS !
    I walked towards the tower of ST. MARY REDCLIFFE CHURCH as you can see in the left photo...READ MORE ON ST. MARY REDCLIFFE CHURCH...

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    St Mary Redcliffe: St. Mary Redcliffe Church...
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  • Updated By coceng on October 14, 2004
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  • St. Mary Redcliffe Church, Bristol England... - Bristol
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    by coceng
    St. Mary Redcliffe Church was described as 'the fairest, the goodliest & most famous Parish church in England' by Queen Elizabeth I in 1574...READ MORE ON ST. MARY REDCLIFFE CHURCH...So, I came nearer to the church, I wanted to see it closer after seeing it in magazines & guidebooks...That's the entrance of the church that you could see in my photo.

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    St Mary Redcliffe: St. Mary Redcliffe Church...
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    St. Mary Redcliffe Church was described as 'the fairest, the goodliest & most famous Parish church in England' by Queen Elizabeth I in 1574...READ MORE ON ST. MARY REDCLIFFE CHURCH...This is a stunning piece of perpendicular architecture with a hexagonal porch...

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    St Mary Redcliffe: St Mary Redcliffe church
  • By jubileegirl on June 25, 2004
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  • Allegedly Queen Elizabeth the first called it the fairest church in the land. It's certainly worth a visit. My children go to the school attached to the church - which unfortunately is a 1970's building in the middle of highrise flats behind the church!

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  • Address: Redcliffe, Bristol
  • Directions: A stonesthrow from the railway station
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    St Mary Redcliffe: St. Mary Redcliffe Church...
    coceng
  • By coceng on October 14, 2004
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    I didn't go inside The St. Mary Redcliffe Church, enough for me to marvel at the outer porch & the inner porch as you can see from my photos in the previous page.
    Here's the tower of the church again, this time taken from The South Porch...

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  • By coceng on October 14, 2004
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  • St. Mary Redcliffe Church, Bristol England... - Bristol
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    by coceng
    St. Mary Redcliffe Church was described as 'the fairest, the goodliest & most famous Parish church in England' by Queen Elizabeth I in 1574...READ MORE ABOUT ST. MARY REDCLIFFE CHURCH...There are many carvings on the outside of the church !
    This is one of them, certainly my favourite !

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  • By coceng on October 14, 2004
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  • St. Mary Redcliffe Church, Bristol England... - Bristol
    St. Mary Redcliffe
    Church, Bristol
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    by coceng
    St. Mary Redcliffe Church was described as 'the fairest, the goodliest & most famous Parish church in England' by Queen Elizabeth I in 1574...READ MORE ON ST. MARY REDCLIFFE CHURCH...I arrived at the church by The North Porch hence the photos here are taken around this side of the church.
    Look at the church tower, amazing !

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