" The historical building is very beautiful from the outside, the statue with the fountain in front is remarkable and attract a lots of people, when the sun is shining and the fountain works. 
I wasn't inside yet, but the visit is on plan.. :) "

The Victoria Rooms, also known colloquially as the Vic Rooms, are situated at the junction of Queen's Road and Whiteladies Road, in Clifton, Bristol, "occupying one of the finest sites in Clifton," according to a 1906 visitor's guide.

The building was designed as assembly rooms by Charles Dyer.

The foundation stone was laid on 24 May 1838, the 19th birthday of Queen Victoria, in whose honour the building was named.
The building had begun in 1838, and cost about £23,000.
The money was raised by a "body of Conservative citizens".

Building works in the Greek revival style, incorporating an eight-columned Corinthian portico which is 30 feet (9.1 m) tall, were completed in 1842.
It is constructed of ashlar (dressed stone work) with steps leading up to the portico. 
The roof is of slate.
Two sloping ramps were built to allow the passage of carriages into the building.
The pediment in the blind attic above the columns has a relief carving attributed to Musgrave Watson "depicting Wisdom in her chariot ushering in the morning, and followed by the Three Graces", according to Andrew Foyle in Pevsner's Guide.
The Victoria Rooms were opened on 24 May 1842. 

In 1849, the interior of the hall was described by Chilcott, in his Descriptive history of Bristol as being decorated in a Greek theme, to match the exterior of the building.
Gomme describes the pediment sculpture as "Minerva in car driven by Apollo, accompanied by the Hours and Graces", attributing the sculpture to Jabez Tyley.
Henry Lonsdale, writing in 1866, explains this anomaly by revealing that Tyley created the sculpture in Bath Stone from a plaster of paris model by Watson.
The architecture of the building is described by English Heritage as "a product of European trends of the time, moving away from Neoclassicism and towards Roman Corinthian design."

Inside the main entrance is a vestibule which then leads via an octagonal room, with a bowed cast-iron railed balcony and a domed ceiling, to the main auditorium. 
Much of the interior was remodelled in the mid-20th century, although some period plaster decorations remain in the Regency room.
Jenny Lind and Charles Dickens were just two of the artists known to have performed there. 
Numerous private subscription balls were held at the rooms, in competition with those organised at the assembly rooms in the Mall, Clifton. 
This rivalry occasioned disputes between the promoters and accusations of prejudice and snobbery.
Other uses included what was the first public demonstration of electric lighting in Bristol in 1863.
It was also the scene for large banquets, such as that to celebrate the opening of the Clifton Suspension Bridge in 1864,and the celebrations, in 1897, of the four hundredth anniversary of John Cabot's 'discovery' of North America.
On 11 June 1874 the Victoria Rooms hosted a meeting to promote what was described as a College of Science and Literature for the West of England and South Wales, which became University College, Bristol, an educational institution which existed from 1876 to 1909.
It was the predecessor institution to the University of Bristol, which gained a Royal Charter in 1909. 
The meeting was attended by the then President of the British Association and Sir William Thompson (later Lord Kelvin).