Market Hall and All Ground Floor Shops
MARKET HALL AND ALL GROUND FLOOR SHOPS, BRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388092
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Market Hall and All Ground Floor Shops
- Statutory Address:
- MARKET HALL AND ALL GROUND FLOOR SHOPS, BRIDGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388092
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Market Hall and All Ground Floor Shops
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARKET HALL AND ALL GROUND FLOOR SHOPS, BRIDGE STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- MARKET HALL AND ALL GROUND FLOOR SHOPS, CORPORATION STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- MARKET HALL AND ALL GROUND FLOOR SHOPS, KNOWSLEY 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:
- MARKET HALL AND ALL GROUND FLOOR SHOPS, BRIDGE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- MARKET HALL AND ALL GROUND FLOOR SHOPS, CORPORATION STREET
- Statutory Address:
- MARKET HALL AND ALL GROUND FLOOR SHOPS, KNOWSLEY STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bolton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 71651 09416
Details
BOLTON
SD7109SE KNOWSLEY STREET 797-1/17/135 (East side) 26/04/74 Market Hall and all ground-floor shops
GV II
Includes: Market Hall and all ground-floor shops BRIDGE STREET. Includes: Market Hall and all ground-floor shops CORPORATION STREET. Market hall and integral shops. Dated 1854. GT Robinson, architect. Ashlar faced with cast-iron internal structure and glazed roof over market hall, slate over shops. EXTERIOR AND PLAN: main entrance front faces Knowsley Street: symmetrically planned about a central entrance block, with flanking 2 storey, arcaded 9-window ranges, and advanced outer pavilions of 3 lights. Portico to main entrance with 4 giant composite columns and outer square-section piers carrying pediment. Central entrance in giant arch with leaded and stained glass oriel window over (renewed) doors. Coat of arms of town in entablature of doorway, and the city emblem and scrollwork over central keystone of arch. Flanking round arched windows on each floor, also within the portico. Single shop unit each side, within the entrance block, the shop fronts and pedimented upper windows set in full-height arches. Flanking ranges contain 3 shops, each with 3 arcaded windows to first floor, their enriched timberwork set between fluted stone pilasters. Scrolled pedimented heads to recessed doors of shops (some now lost), and leaded upper lights to shop windows. Scrolled brackets carry modillion fascia over shop fronts. Advanced pavilions at each corner, with chamfered angles. Similar shop fronts below, and arcaded upper windows in stone. Subsidiary entrance to market hall in chamfered angle to left. Elevation to Corporation Street also has central entrance block, with Tuscan pediment, flanked by 16-window ranges terminating in subsidiary entrance then 3-window return of advanced pavilion to left, and chamfered angle with entrance in advanced pavilion to right. Similar arcaded windows, and shop fronts, with lozenge overlights to recessed entrances. Central oriel window to first floor in right-hand range, where there has been some alteration and renewal of shop fronts, together with the insertion of a mezzanine floor. Return to Rushton Street has 6 blind arcaded bays with
lunettes over, to each side of central entrance. INTERIOR: of market hall laid out on cruciform aisled plan, with 2 aisles each side of central east-west axis; ornate cast-iron columns supporting roof structure, with pierced cast-iron spandrels and upper arcading. Pierced cast-iron spandrels sprung from central 'crossing' columns form a central octagonal space. The market building is of considerable interest as an early example of large-scale municipal market development. (BOE: Pevsner N: South Lancashire: Harmondsworth: 1969-).
Listing NGR: SD7165109416
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476090
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Lancashire, (1969)
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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