
The eighteenth-century architecture behind one of Bristol's most storied addresses.
Berkeley Square was laid out in the late eighteenth century to designs by Thomas Paty, one of Bristol's most prominent Architect-Masons. No.20 has long been a home for ideas and good company — for many years the University and Literary Club, founded in 1889.
Its function rooms are reached by a stunning Georgian staircase, top-lit by a magnificent glass cupola — the first thing every guest remembers.
More news, the season's programme, and the story of the restoration.
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