A classic Georgian Bristol square has been restored using natural stone to provide the finishing touches.
Bath Stone from Hanson Bath & Portland Stones Hartham Park quarry has been used in the restoration and refurbishment of Queen Square, Bristol, a £5 million Bristol City Council project backed by a 3.5 million award from the Heritage Lottery Funds Urban Parks Programme.
Hanson’s Keynsham masonry works made caps, coping, pillars and plinth for the phrase of the project that reinstated boundary walls and railing for the square’s railings for the squares listed buildings.
Hanson’s Masonry was responsible for stone fixing, in a project that took six months to complete.
Queen Square is one of the largest Georgian squares in Europe and was home at one time to some of the city’s wealthiest residents. A dual carriageway that previously cut the square in two has been removed and the area reinstated in a traditional landscape from for general public use. It effectively creates an attractive new public space in the centre of Bristol, today home to offices and a place for leisure and open-air entertainment.