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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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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Official list entry

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

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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Legacy System number:: 201217
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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War Memorials Online, accessed 10 February 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/120467
War Memorials Register, accessed 10 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/2098

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.