Redcliffe Place is named after its architect’s recent brief to design a church in the Redcliffe area of Bristol.
The biography of developer Captain Robert Gunter shows how many of the local streets were named.
After serving as a young officer in the Dragoon Guards in the Crimea, he settled in Yorkshire at Wetherby Grange in Collingham, near Knaresborough. Gunter married Miss Jane Benyon of Gledhow Hall, and was elected to parliament for the Barkston division of Yorkshire. He hunted with the Bramham Moor Hunt.
The word Redcliffe is thought to have been used as George Godwin - principal architect - had recently completed designing a church in Redcliffe, Bristol.
