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Bristol Beacon, previously Colston Hall, is a concert hall and Grade II listed building on Colston Street, Bristol, England. It is owned by Bristol City Council. Since 2011, it has been managed by Bristol Music Trust. The hall opened as a concert venue in 1867, and became a popular place for classical music and theatre.
Beacon Tower, formerly Colston Tower, is a high-rise building located on Colston Avenue, in the centre of Bristol, England. The building was designed in 1961, but not completed until 1973. It rises 63 metres (207 ft) and has 15 floors of offices.
Bristol is the largest city in South West England and one of the 11 'Core Cities' in the United Kingdom. [1] Currently, the tallest building in Bristol is Castle Park View at 98 metres, and has held the record since topping out in November 2020. [2] The tallest structure in Bristol is a wind turbine in Lawrence Weston, at 150 m.
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Granary, Bristol. Bristol Byzantine is a variety of Byzantine Revival architecture that was popular in the city of Bristol from about 1850 to 1880.. Many buildings in the style have been destroyed or demolished, but notable surviving examples include the Bristol Beacon, [1] the Granary on Welsh Back, the Carriage Works [2] on Stokes Croft and several of the buildings around Victoria Street.
On 21 December 1892, Bristol Choral Society gave its first performance of Handel's Messiah at the Colston Hall. It proved so popular, regularly attracting sell-out audiences, that it has been performed regularly ever since just before Christmas. 2012 marked the 120th anniversary of the choir's Messiah at Colston Hall with Messiah once again performed on the Saturday before Christmas – 120 ...
The Red Lodge was originally built at the top of the gardens of "ye Great House of St. Augustine's Back". [4] The Great House was built in 1568 [5] on the site of an old Carmelite Priory, later still the site of Bristol Beacon (formerly named Colston Hall), [4] [6] by Sir John Young/Yonge, the descendant of a merchant family and courtier to Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.