Town Hall
TOWN HALL, CHAPEL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1298545
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN HALL, CHAPEL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1298545
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN HALL, CHAPEL 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:
- TOWN HALL, CHAPEL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stratford-upon-Avon
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 20127 54838
Details
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
SP2054NW CHAPEL STREET 604-1/10/40 (South East side) 25/10/51 Town Hall
GV II*
Town hall. 1767 with infill to arches of 1863 and later additions. By Robert Newman of Whittington, builder and mason. Cotswold stone; hipped slate roof. Palladian style. 2 storeys; symmetrical 5-bay range. 3-bay centre breaks forward under pediment. Platt band over ground floor; 1st floor sill band and top modillioned cornice. Ground floor has blocked round arches with segmental-headed windows with 24-pane horned sashes; 1st floor has windows with friezes and cornices over 24-pane horned sashes, that to centre has eared and shouldered architrave, pulvinated frieze and segmental-headed pediment. Below sill band is remains of painted words: GOD SAVE THE KING. Top pediment has relief of borough arms with husk drops and date: 1767. Sheep Street elevation of 3 bays has similar details; ground-floor windows with 8/12-pane sashes; 1st-floor niche has consoled open pediment over lead statue of Shakespeare, 1769, by John Cheere, a copy of the 1740 statue by Scheemakers on the Westminster Abbey memorial, the panel below recording details; panel below sill band records the Silver Jubilee of 1977. Rear wing has porch with round-arched opening and sashed window in round-headed recess to left; balustraded balcony above and recessed arched porch. INTERIOR: ground-floor room with rich C19 coffered ceiling, panelled pilasters to end flanking inscribed panels inscribed with names of bailiffs etc; rear room, former kitchen, has high ceiling and high 4- and 2-light ovolo-mullioned windows, large fireplace with moulded arch with herringbone brickwork; staircase probably rebuilt in C20; 1st-floor Tuscan ballroom with cornice and stucco panelling with Rococo relief work and candle sconces renewed after fire in 1946, two C19 fireplaces. HISTORICAL NOTE: the building was opened by David Garrick in 1769 on the occasion of the Shakespeare Jubilee, when he presented the statue of Shakespeare. From 1843 it was used for Corporation meetings and is now used by Stratford Town Council. A dignified building in an important position. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: London: 1966-: 415; Pevsner N: The Cathedrals of England: Southern England: Harmondsworth: 1985-: 191).
Listing NGR: SP2012754838
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 366184
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Metcalfe, P, The Cathedrals of England: Southern England, (1985), 191
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 415
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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