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James Johnson (1803–34) was an English architectural draughtsman, watercolourist and oil painter who was a member of the Bristol School of artists. He contributed nearly 50 drawings of scenes from Bristol, England to the topographical collection of George Weare Braikenridge. The Braikenridge Collection makes Bristol's early 19th century appearance one of the best documented of any English city. Johnson was also a painter of poetic landscapes in oil.
Hope Chapel is home to Hope Community Church in Hotwells, Bristol, England. It is a Grade II listed building.
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Temple Quay is an area of mixed-use development in central Bristol, England. The project was initiated by Bristol Development Corporation in 1989, under the name Quay Point until 1995. In that year it was handed over to English Partnerships, under whom development eventually started in 1998. It is bounded by Temple Way to the west and Bristol Temple Meads railway station to the southeast; to the northeast the development was bounded by Bristol Floating Harbour until 2002, when development of Temple Quay North started on the harbour's other side. In 2012 the whole area became part of Bristol Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone.
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- ↑ Annals of Bristol [17th to 19th Century]. W. George's sons, W. & F. Morgan. 1893. pp. 227–.
- ↑ John Corry; John Evans (1816). The History of Bristol, Civil and Ecclesiastical. W. Sheppard. pp. 155–.
- ↑ Andrew Foyle (2004). Bristol . Yale University Press. pp. 189–. ISBN 978-0-300-10442-4.
- ↑ George Bryce (1861). A Popular History of Bristol: Antiquarian, Topographical and Descriptive from the Earliest Period to the Present Time ; with Biographical Notices of Eminent Natives and Residents, Impartially Written. W. Mack. pp. 167–.
- Andrew Foyle, 'Pevsner Architectural Guides: Bristol', Yale University Press (2004) ISBN 0-300-10442-1
- Walter Ison, The Georgian Buildings of Bristol, Kingsmead Press (1978) ISBN 0-901571-88-1
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