TOWN HALL

TOWN HALL, PARADE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381441
Date first listed:: 18-Aug-1980
List Entry Name:: TOWN HALL
Statutory Address:: TOWN HALL, PARADE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381441
Date first listed:: 18-Aug-1980
List Entry Name:: TOWN HALL
Statutory Address 1:: TOWN HALL, PARADE

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

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: TOWN HALL, PARADE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Warwickshire
District:: Warwick (District Authority)
Parish:: Royal Leamington Spa
National Grid Reference:: SP 31818 65780

Details

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3165NE PARADE 1208-1/7/293 (East side) 18/08/80 Town Hall

GV II

Municipal buildings. 1882-84 with later additions and alterations. Architect, John Cundall; building contractor, John Fell of Leamington. Stained glass by Holt of Warwick and carving and sculpture by Boulton of Cheltenham. Pinkish-red brick with sandstone ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roof, partly fish-scaled. 'Alderman's Renaissance' style, incorporating Tudor and French baroque elements. PLAN: double-depth with central hallway; full-width ballroom to first-floor at left with full-width council chamber to first-floor at right; 2 storeys with attic to centre, 5 bays of which the two end and centre bays project, and with tower to south approximately 44 metres high. EXTERIOR: central projecting portico to ground floor has banded pillars surmounted by balustrade. First floor: pairs of Tuscan pilasters clasp angles of outer bays. Above portico, paired Corinthian columns to ends of centre bay with single columns between windows, decorated frieze with masks, surmounted by central upshot between obelisks and further pedimented upshot. Ground floor: entrance, steps to double, part-glazed, panelled doors recessed within ornate, round-arched surround. 2- and 3-light mullion and transom windows with banded pilasters between. First floor, outer bays: to left a tripartite, round-arched window with 4/4 sashes and decorative glazing to heads; to right a 5-sided oriel with mullion and two levels of transoms between 2-light mullion and transom windows with two levels of transoms. Otherwise 1-, 2- and 3-light mullion and transom windows, that to centre with swan-neck pediment. Attic stage: blind to outer bays which are surmounted by decorative pedimented upshots with obelisks. To centre 3 bays are 2- and 3-light mullion and transom windows, surmounted by pedimented upshots, more elaborate to centre with lunette with mosaic decoration and flanking obelisks. Roof stacks. Central squared and flattened dome surmounted by ornate balcony. Clock tower has clasping pilasters, clock face to 4 sides, balcony, 3-light belfry openings and peaked dome cap. Returns have 2- and 3- light mullion and transom windows. Inscriptions: to foundation stone: 'THIS STONE WAS LAID BY ALDERMAN HENRY BRIGHT J.P. MAYOR OF LEAMINGTON OCTOBER 17 1882.' Above door: 'This building was opened Sept 18th 1884, by the Mayor Sidney Flavel Junr. Esqr. J.P.' INTERIOR: central imperial staircase has Romanesque balustrade, and is ornamented with figures, pilasters and arcades to walls, stained glass staircase window. Council chamber has wood panelling with pilasters with lion-masks above; balcony to rear; to front the bay window forms chairman's 'apse'; painted stone chimneypiece with lion masks; stained glass window with scenes from Shakespeare 'PRESENTED BY SIDNEY FLAVEL JUNR JP MAYOR 1883-4'. Assembly Rooms to left has paired 'Corinthian' pilasters around walls and panelled ceiling; stained glass windows have musical instruments. HISTORICAL NOTE: the total cost of land, buildings, fitting and furniture was about »20,000. (Town Hall Centenary 1984: The Present Town Hall 1884-1984: WGG; Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 132-7; Leamington Spa Courier: 20.9.1884).

Listing NGR: SP3181865780

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Legacy System number:: 481803
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
The Present Town Hall 1884-1984, (1984)
Cave, L F, Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development, (1988), 132-7
'Leamington Spa Courier' in 20 September, (1884)

Legal

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