St Mark's Church, Bristol

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St Mark's Church, Bristol, west front, remodelled in 1830 and 1889.
The south aisle window is visible on the right side, the tower to the rear, behind which is the Poyntz Chapel.
Bristol Cathedral is behind the viewer, across a large grass lawn, formerly a graveyard used by both churches.
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org St Mark's Church, Bristol, west front, as drawn c.
1892 following restoration St Mark's Church is an ancient church on the north-east side of College Green, Bristol, England, built c.
1230.
Better known to mediaeval and Tudor historians as the Gaunt's Chapel, it has also been known within Bristol since 1722 as the Lord Mayor's Chapel.
It is one of only two churches in England privately owned and used for worship by a city corporation.
The other is St Lawrence Jewry, London.
It stands opposite St Augustine's Abbey （after 1542 Bristol Cathedral）, founded by a member of the Berkeley family of nearby Berkeley Castle, from which it was originally separated by the Abbey's burial ground, now called College Green.
It was built as the chapel to the adjacent Gaunt's Hospital, now demolished, founded in 1220.
Except for the west front, the church has been enclosed by later adjacent buildings, although the tower is still visible.
The church contains some fine late gothic features and a collection of continental stained glass.
It is designated by Historic England as a grade I listed building.
Seal of The Gaunt's Hospital, Bristol.
Legend in Lombardic capitals: S（IGILLUM） CO（MMUN）E DOM（US） S（AN）C（T）I MARCI（I） DE BILLESWYK JUXTA BRISTOLL（IAM） （"The common seal of the House of St Mark of Billeswyk-by-Bristol"）.
The upper 2/3 consists of 2 gothic niches, the right hand one containing the figure of St Mark seated at a desk writing his gospel.
In the nich...