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History of the Christmas Steps Arts Quarter
This fascinating quarter of Bristol has been a shopping area for hundreds of years. In medieval times, Bristol’s population outgrew the ancient walled city, and overflowed from St. John’s Gate up the steep hillside around Christmas Steps ( formerly Queen Street) and onto St. Michael’s Hill. At the foot of Christmas Steps Tudor wood-framed shops and adjacent s the stone arched entrance to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital founded in 1240. From 1532 it became Bristol Grammar School and then Queen Elizabeth Hospital school (1767-1847).
The sea captains would ascend Christmas Steps and Upper Christmas Steps to their fine Tudor and Georgian town houses on St. Michaels Hill which comands one of the finest views over the entire city”.
Christmas Steps is nationally famous for its historic shops that run up either side. Towards the top, a plaque commemorates the gallant royalist Colonel Henry Lunsford who was shot through the heart whilst leading the royalists attack on Bristol in 1643 during the Civil War. A stone plaque at the top above the alms-gatherers’ niches states that this ancient street was “Steppered Done and Finished September 1669″.
Adjacent to the top of the Steps are the Foster’s Almshouses and the Chapel of The Three Kings of Cologne founded in 1490. The Almshouses were superbly rebuilt in Victorian times in Burgundian style, copying 15th Century domestic French architecture.
Lower Park Row(originally Griffin Lane) boasts a Jacobean House adjacent to the old Ship Inn and leads up to Park Row. The Red Lodge Museum (free admission) was built in 1590 and has Bristol’s last remaining 16th century interior with its impressive oak paneling, ornate ceilings and fireplace, as well as period furnishings and a Tudor knot garden. Opposite on Park Row is the fine stone- built Jewish Synagogue (c.1870), one of Bristol’s only two synagogues. Perry Road is a splendid unspoiled mid-Victorian shopping parade built in 1872.
Colston Street has the Colston Hall at its foot with its Byzantine sandstone columns, and is lined with shops dating from the 1600’s to the 1900’s (the top end becoming Upper Maudlin Street). Opposite Christmas Steps is Zero Degrees Restaurant and micro-brewery. built on the site of the old Horsedrawn Tramsheds (1875) which stabled sixty horses and Bristol’s double-deckered trams. Below Colston Street are narrow lanes of brooding warehouses, a reminder that the docks once reached this area overlooked by the Catholic church of St. Mary Quay.
The sea captains would ascend Christmas Steps and Upper Christmas Steps to their fine Tudor and Georgian town houses on St. Michaels Hill which comands one of the finest views over the entire city. Across from the church is the very fine Colstons Almshouses built in 1691 and just into Horfield is a plaque marking the birthplace of Sir Michael Redgrave.
“This ancient street was “Steppered Done and Finished September 1669.
At the top of Upper Christmas Steps is the church of St. Michael on the Mount Without (i.e. outside the walled city) founded in 1125. In the old coaching road of Lower Church Lane is The Old Rectory (c.1780) with its charming “Strawberry Hill gothic” windows. And above the stone built and mullion windowed St. Michael’s School (1895) is the Manor house with its fine shell porch.
Took about dozen photos of people's, and one worked! (Hopefully no one thought of me as a creep! :) )
At the new Wing Luke Asian Museum, in Seattle's International District.
In the largest size, you can read the names of donors engraved on the steps.
Bedruthan Steps is a stretch of coastline located on the north Cornish coast between Padstow and Newquay, in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is within the parish of St Eval and is part owned by the National Trust. The Trust maintains a shop and cafe and the cliff–top view of rocks stretching into the distance along Bedruthan beach makes the area a popular attraction for tourists and painters. The property affords walks along the coast path and the steep steps at Bedruthan allow access to a series of rocky beaches at low tide (not owned by the Trust). Signs at the top of the steps down to the beaches warn visitors not to risk swimming in these waters due to heavy rips, fast tides and submerged rocks.
Bedruthan Steps is a stretch of coastline located on the north Cornish coast between Padstow and Newquay, in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is within the parish of St Eval and is part owned by the National Trust. The Trust maintains a shop and cafe and the cliff–top view of rocks stretching into the distance along Bedruthan beach makes the area a popular attraction for tourists and painters. The property affords walks along the coast path and the steep steps at Bedruthan allow access to a series of rocky beaches at low tide (not owned by the Trust). Signs at the top of the steps down to the beaches warn visitors not to risk swimming in these waters due to heavy rips, fast tides and submerged rocks.
The new stairs at Fort Hill in the Rocky River Reservation reopened last October after the original stairs were removed for safety reasons. I finally made it up to see them this spring and couldn't wait to climb the 155 steps to the top and take in the view of the Rocky River below. I stopped to catch my breath after reaching the top and took this shot about a half hour or so before sunset.
omgosh. today was a BEAUTIFUL fall day. too bad i was inside for 11.5 hours of it. i went out to get my photo of the day.... wow was it hard to come back in. it was just perfect weather. the campus was empty b/c all those wolverines were in the big house. well, except the two people walking down the street with a camera, who spied me trying to take my selfie for the day. i gave myself a pep talk: 'ignore them and do your thing' but don't you know i heard them clicking away behind me... taking pictures of me being a dork. damn it!! i hope they were drunk and will forget where they put their camera by the end of the night ;)