The Guildhall
THE GUILDHALL, ST GILES' SQUARE
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1052399
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Guildhall
- Statutory Address:
- THE GUILDHALL, ST GILES' SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1052399
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Guildhall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GUILDHALL, ST GILES' SQUARE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE GUILDHALL, ST GILES' SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Northampton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 75580 60487
Details
ST GILES' SQUARE
1.
5327
(North Side)
The Guildhall
SP 7560 NE 2/75 19.1.52.
SP 7560 SE 4/75
II*
2.
1861-4 by E W Godwin. Extended on west, 1889-92, by A W Jeffrey and Matthew
Holding. Richly decorated building in C13 Gothic style, of brown and grey stone
with Welsh slated roof. 2 main storeys, 14 bay front. Arcaded ground floor
has windows with plate tracery, carved panels in tympana. Upper windows interspersed
with canopied statues on pedestals. Godwin's eastern half has vaulted central
entrance loggia of 3 bays with balcony above under clock tower with steeply pitched
roof. West addition of equal frontage, first 3 bays (reduced to 2 on 1st floor)
rising to gable with large corner pinnacles. Hall with mural paintings by Colin
Gill,1925, and fine Council Chamber. Contains statue, 1817 by Chantrey, of
Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister 1809-12. VCH III p 37.
Listing NGR: SP7558060487
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 232199
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ryland, W, Adkins, D, Sejeantson, R, The Victoria History of the County of Northampton, (1930), 37
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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