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October 15, 2025

BONUS: Brutal Bristol

A trip to Bristol to see the newly listed Broadmead Baptist Church and the Brutal Bristol exhibit. Bonus material for paying subscribers. Thank you!

Last week I took a trip up to Bristol. Although the city is within any definition of west country, I don’t include it in the scope of this project. But I do love it!

So here, for paying subscribers only, are some notes about Brutal Bristol.

Broadmead Baptist Church

A brutalist building beneath a pale blue sky with high white clouds. The building's first floor is a wall of thick vertical glass blocks. Above that is a wall of concrete and above that is more glass, surmounted by concrete roof beams that have been designed to look like huge white doves. On the ground floor is a Tesco Express.
The church above the supermarket (Image: Mags L Halliday, 2025)
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