Town Hall
TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1220689
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1220689
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE
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:
- TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dursley
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 75619 98124
Details
DURSLEY MARKET PLACE ST 7598 5/44 Town Hall 23.6.52 GV II*
Town hall and market. 1738. Roughcast with limestone ashlar dressings; plain tile roof. Arcaded market undercroft beneath upper floor town hall. Round-arched arcading to ground floor; keyed arches with impost blocks and cylindrical columns with moulded top and base. Five-bay arcading to north and south sides, 2-bay at ends, one arch being blocked in south-west corner for internal stone staircase to hall. Continuous string course above arcade. Sash fenestration to hall, all 12-pane with plain beaded architraves and bull-nosed sills. Elaborate coat-of-arms of Escourt family on south side at central window position with pediment over supported on console brackets and with fluted pilasters below; moulded panel below sill. Shell-hooded niche at east end between sashes with imposts to architrave; painted statue of Queen Anne in niche. Hipped roof with 3 hipped dormers to each side; single hipped dormer at each end, all with small-paned casements. Central open-sided octagonal cupola on square base, containing bell and having gilded ball finial with weathervane above small leaded dome. Row of tubular cast-iron columns along centre-line of building within covered market. Interior of town hall room not inspected but said to be very plain and altered in C20. The anachronistic use of the statue of Queen Anne (George II was on the throne in 1738) was probably in gratitude for her special grant without which the church tower would not have been rebuilt. Scheduled Ancient Monument No 371. (A. Best et al, An Historical Survey of Dursley, 1985; D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979)
Listing NGR: ST7561798124
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 394411
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)
Best, A, An Historical Survey of Dursley, (1985)
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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