HuwThomas

By HuwThomas

Horfield Common

French feel to the common! 
Horfield public lavatory is one of a collection of three across Bristol. The urinals “illustrate the growth of the Bristol suburbs in the late-C19 and the facilities provided by the local authorities in order to foster the genteel middle-class environment to which they aspired”.
 https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/features/bristols-three-listed-victorian-urinals/

Built in the 1880s at the MacFarlane foundry in Glasgow, the round racing green Grade II-listed urinals have a curved entrance screen, decorative pierced panels and a Moorish-style dome on top, known as a filigree dome.
Each one is a rare surviving example of a once common type of structure among Bristol’s streetscape but none of them are currently in use.

BRISTOL

ST57NE GLOUCESTER ROAD, Horfield 901-1/53/1412 (North West side) Public lavatory on south-east corner of Horfield Common 

Grade II Listed

Public lavatory. Late C19. Cast-iron. A round urinal with curved entrance screen, of decorative cast-iron panels, pierced to the top, and raking roof to a filigree dome with small bowl finial. Porcelain urinal inside. A matching public lavatory is on Mina Road (qv). 

Listing NGR: ST5947876850

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