Queens Road · Bristol
Find the Gargoyles
Spot the carved grotesques hiding on Bristol's last great Gothic tower.
- ⏱ 15 min
- 💷 £0
- 🥾 Easy
The Wills Memorial Building looks medieval but was finished in 1925, one of the last serious Gothic towers built anywhere in Britain, paid for by the local tobacco family. Somewhere in its stonework are carved figures worth tracking down.
What you’ll do
- 1Head to Queens Road
- 2Look up
- 3Prove it
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Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0
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