IMAGES OF MEDIEVAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE

BRITAIN: ENGLAND
BRISTOL (ST. MARY'S REDCLIFFE PARISH CHURCH)

© Alison Stones

DIMENSIONS

• Length to end of Nave 240 ft
• Transepts 117 ft
• Width of transept (incl. aisles) 44 ft
• Nreadth of Nave and aisles 59 ft
• Height of aisles 25 ft
• Height of nave, transept and chancel 54 ft 9 inches
• Height of tower and spire 285 ft.

Exterior
Adapted from GWR p. 43 Screen-sized image	General View Courtesy of Dr. Ruth Deane/1976 Screen-sized Image /Large "Archive" Image
Screen-sized Image / Large "Archive" Image	Doorway on North Side Screen-sized Image / Large "Archive" Image

Interior

Interior toward West  Screen-sized Image	Interior toward East  Screen-sized Image

Bony, Jean. The English decorated style : Gothic architecture transformed, 1250-1350. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1979. ISBN 0801412439

Cartwright, R. F. The pictorial history of St. Mary Redcliffe, the fairest, goodliest and most famous parish church in England London, Pitkin Pictorials, 1968. LC Number: NA971.B86 C3

Gomme,Andor, Michael Jenner, Bryan Little. Bristol, an architectural history . London : Lund Humphries, 1979.
LC Number  NA971.B86 G6

Pevsner, Nikolaus.  North Somerset and Bristol.[Harmondsworth, Eng.] Penguin Books [1958}LC Number: NA969.S69 P5n

Smith, Michael Quinton. St Mary Redcliffe : an architectural history Bristol : Redcliffe, 1995.

• At least 2 previous churches on this site
• Present church begun between 1327 and 1389

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