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Bristol Sights

Bristol Cathedral

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  • Address
    • College Green
  • Website
  • Phone
    • 0117-926 4879
  • Price
    • donations requested
  • Hours
    • 8am-6pm

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Lonely Planet review for Bristol Cathedral

Originally founded as the church of an Augustinian monastery in 1140, Bristol Cathedral was remodelled during the 19th century. It's one of Britain's best examples of a 'Hall Church' (meaning the nave, chapels and choir are the same height). Although the nave and the west towers are largely 19th century, the medieval choir has some fascinating misericords depicting apes in hell, quarrelling couples and dancing bears, and the south transept shelters a rare Saxon carving of the Harrowing of Hell, discovered under the chapter-house floor after a 19th-century fire.

 

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