Municipal Buildings, comprising the clock tower, public library, and Corn Exchange, and including the area balustrade which incorporates a war memorial and a statue of Queen Victoria
Municipal Buildings, comprising the clock tower, public library, and Corn Exchange, and including the area balustrade which incorporates a war memorial and a statue of Queen Victoria, Katharine Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1188798
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Municipal Buildings, comprising the clock tower, public library, and Corn Exchange, and including the area balustrade which incorporates a war memorial and a statue of Queen Victoria
- Statutory Address:
- Municipal Buildings, comprising the clock tower, public library, and Corn Exchange, and including the area balustrade which incorporates a war memorial and a statue of Queen Victoria, Katharine Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1188798
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Municipal Buildings, comprising the clock tower, public library, and Corn Exchange, and including the area balustrade which incorporates a war memorial and a statue of Queen Victoria
- Statutory Address 1:
- Municipal Buildings, comprising the clock tower, public library, and Corn Exchange, and including the area balustrade which incorporates a war memorial and a statue of Queen Victoria, Katharine Street
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:
- Municipal Buildings, comprising the clock tower, public library, and Corn Exchange, and including the area balustrade which incorporates a war memorial and a statue of Queen Victoria, Katharine Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Croydon (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 32413 65390
Details
TQ 3265
9/30
KATHARINE STREET
Municipal Buildings, comprising the clock tower, public library, and Corn Exchange, and including the area balustrade which incorporates a war memorial and a statue of Queen Victoria
(Formerly listed under KATHERINE STREET)
19.11.73
GV
II
1892 to 1896. By Charles Henman Jnr. Complex of buildings of contrasting sizes, all in red brick with stone ornamentation. Slate roof. From east to west: town hall of two storeys with attic and basement; nine bays facing onto Katharine Street and five bays of a similar style facing onto Fell Street. Tall clock tower against south west return. To south and west again, the library, of one storey and attic and basement with steeply pitched roof and central turret. To north west, the Corn Exchange, a three storey, four bay structure with a two bay loggia above part of the external staircase. Area balustrade of stone in front of both the Town Hall and the Library, incorporating a war memorial before the western end of the Town Hall and a bronze statue to Queen Victoria opposite the centre bay of the Library.
Listing NGR: TQ3241465377
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 10 February 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 201217
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 10 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/2098
War Memorials Online, accessed 10 February 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/120467
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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