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Landmark Bedminster building to become flats
A Victorian building originally built as a ragged school to feed and support Bedminster’s poor is being turned into flats.
St Luke’s Hall on William Street will be turned into two one-bedroom, eleven two-bedroom and one three-bedroom homes.
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Once known as St Luke’s Mission Hall Ragged School, the first reference to the hall is in a planning application submitted to the city council in 1876 for a “Soup Kitchen, Ragged and others School”.
Helm Construction managing director Paul Evans said: “St Luke’s Hall has been a Bedminster landmark since the Victorian times but after a series of commercial uses it has been left vacant and is now in need of a complete refurbishment in order to provide much-needed new homes in south Bristol.
“It is part of a new wave of renovation works we’re involved in which will help restore south Bristol to its former glory and bring these long-abandoned buildings back into the public realm.”