Magistrates Court / Call Stone / Town Hall

Date:: 31 May 2006

Location:: Magistrates Court, Highgate, Kendal, South Lakeland, Cumbria, LA9 4DL; Show all locations

Call Stone, Highgate, Kendal, South Lakeland, Cumbria, LA9 4DL

Town Hall, Lowther Street, Kendal, South Lakeland, Cumbria, LA9 4DL

Magistrates Court, Lowther Street, Kendal, South Lakeland, Cumbria, LA9 4DL

Call Stone, Lowther Street, Kendal, South Lakeland, Cumbria, LA9 4DL

Town Hall, Highgate, Kendal, South Lakeland, Cumbria, LA9 4DL

Reference:: IOE01/15760/35

Type:: Photograph (Digital)

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Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

SD 5192 NW & NE KENDAL HIGHGATE (East side) 7 & 8/34 Town Hall, Magistrates Court, & 24-4-51 Call Stone G.V. II

Assembly Rooms, known as White Hall, on sloping site; 1825 by Francis (& George?) Webster. 1859 converted for use as Town Hall by George Webster. 1893 (date in pediment) extended by Stephen Shaw. Hammer-dressed, banded, ground floor; 1st floor ashlar, with sill band. Eaves band and cornice. Highgate elevation has open parapet of turned stone balusters with covered urns on plinth blocks at each end; 2 ornate dormers with clock tower between.

Steeply-pitched, hipped, graduated slate roofs. 2 storeys with attic to Highgate, and cellars to Lowther Street, elevations. 3-bays (2:1) added to left on Highgate elevation in 1893: Panelled double doors in richly-decorated doorcase with date and cartouche in open and broken pediment; 2 semicircular-headed windows to left with Call Stone on ground between (part of Stricklandgate Market Cross, from which proclamations have been made for over 3 centuries). 1st floor: Sash over door in architrave with splayed feet and swan-neck pediment, all within segmentally-pedimented surround; 2 sashes in corniced architrave to left. Dormer window in pedimented architrave with splayed feet. 2-stage clock tower (above door) has semicircular-headed louvred openings; swan-neck pediment between stages has cartouche with initial 'B' (for Alderman William Bindloss, Mayor, who gave the bells). 2nd stage has large, circular, clock face in open-pedimented surround. Ogee lead roof is surmounted by small lantern with weather-vane. Former White Hall comprises 3 (symmetrical) right-hand bays (1:1:1) of Highgate elevation and 14 bays (3:8:3) on Lowther Street. Highgate: central, panelled double doors and semicircular fanlight with semicircular-headed window to either side. 1st floor: Pedimented Ionic loggia in antis with cast-iron balustrade; sash in corniced architrave to either side. Central Venetian dormer window, in ornate pedimented surround, added in 1893 (replacing mid Cl9 clock tower). Lowther Street: 3 bays to either end have semicircular-headed windows to ground floor and tall 1st floor sashes; lower ground floor to Magistrates Court (3 eastern bays) has recessed, panelled double door in corniced surround with 2 windows to left. 8 central bays have semicircular-headed windows to both floors. Glazing bars to windows on both elevations. Interior: Richly decorated, mainly 1893 fittings. Hall cornice has wreaths to frieze; staircase with spiral curtail to ornamental iron handrail (rear stair similar). Council Chamber has ornate wooden chimneypiece; Assembly Hall has Doric pilasters carrying coved segmental ceiling. Both Court Room and Assembly Hall have galleries supported on cast-iron pillars.

Listing NGR: SD5149392633

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0021 IOE Records taken by Adrian Allchin; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project

People & Organisations

Photographer: Allchin, Adrian

Rights Holder: Allchin, Adrian

Keywords

Ashlar, Slate, Stone, Georgian Assembly Rooms, Civil, Public Building, Recreational, Town Hall, Meeting Hall, Date Stone, Commemorative, Commemorative Stone, Commemorative Monument, Market Cross, Religious Ritual And Funerary, Cross, Magistrates Court, Law Court, Legal Site