Old Town Hall
OLD TOWN HALL, ALL SAINTS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388257
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Old Town Hall
- Statutory Address:
- OLD TOWN HALL, ALL SAINTS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388257
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Old Town Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD TOWN HALL, ALL SAINTS STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- OLD TOWN HALL, ST GEORGES 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:
- OLD TOWN HALL, ALL SAINTS STREET
- Statutory Address:
- OLD TOWN HALL, ST GEORGES 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 71788 09642
Details
BOLTON
SD7109NE ST GEORGE'S STREET 797-1/14/200 (North side) 26/04/74 Old Town Hall
GV II
Includes: Old Town Hall ALL SAINTS STREET. Town hall, later library and now museum. 1826. Ashlar with slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 3-window range to original entrance front facing St George's Street, divided by pilasters, panelled in upper sections, and with central pediment. Heavy rusticated advanced panel surrounding 6-panelled door, with modillion cornice over. flanking 12-pane windows, and similar windows in outer bays. Shallow segmental tripartite sash window over doorway. 5-window return to All Saints Street, with symmetrical 3-bay section forming immediate return of entrance front, stressed by full-height pilasters panelled in upper sections; wing beyond. Present main entrance in centre of return, in portico with coupled Tuscan piers. Blocking course forms shallow pediment over entrance. Flanking 12-pane sash windows; Secondary doorway in wing to left beyond, with blind window to its right, and 12-pane sash window to left. Upper windows are 8-pane sashes. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: the building was the town hall before the incorporation of the borough and continued in use for magisterial and police business until 1874. It was converted for use as a library in 1879. (Bolton Journal (Pictorial Bolton Series), 8 January 1887: Bolton; BOE: Pevsner N: South Lancashire: Harmondsworth: 1969-).
Listing NGR: SD7178809642
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476255
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Lancashire, (1969)
Bolton Journal in Pictorial Bolton Series 8th January, (1887)
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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