Description

CALBOURNE

SZ49SW NEWTOWN
1354-0/2/133 Newtown Town Hall
18/01/67

GV II*

Former Town Hall, now owned by National Trust. c1699 with late
C18 alterations. 3 sides are red brick, the 4th side is yellow
brick. Hipped tiled roof. South front has stone end quoins, 2
round-headed windows with intersecting glazing bars and late
C18 wooden porticos with 4 Tuscan columns and dentil frieze. 6
panelled door, the top 4 panels fielded, the lower 2 flush.
East front has no windows but a projecting brick chimneystack.
West front is in English bond and has 4 tall round-headed
windows with stone architraves, keystones, impost blocks and
intersecting glazing. Basement has 4 original wooden casements
with leaded lights on pintle hinges. North front is of yellow
mathematical tiles in Flemish bond with early C18 stone
doorcase with moulded cornice and 6 panelled door and flight
of stone steps with iron handrail. Basement has late C17
chamfered stone doorcase with wooden 6 panelled doors.
Interior has Council Chamber or Court Room with early C18
panelling and 2 panelled doors with deep fielded panels. Iron
firegrate. Mayor's Parlour and Robing Room to south. Early C19
cast iron spiral staircase leading to basement. A town named
Francheville existed on this spot in the Middle Ages, to which
Aymer de Valance, Bishop of Winchester 1250-62, granted a
Charter of Incorporation. This was confirmed by Edward II,
Edward IV and Elizabeth. In 1377 the town was totally
destroyed by the French, and thereafter the new town which
replaced it was renamed Newtown. Queen Elizabeth granted it
the right to return two Members of Parliament. By the C18 the
place had dwindled to a village and was one of the "rotten
boroughs" disenfranchised by the Reform Act of 1832. Among the
Members who had represented it were John Churchill, later Duke
of Marlborough, in 1678 and George Canning in 1796. The former
borough is now only a very small hamlet.

Listing NGR: SZ4237090564

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Newtown Old Town Hall at Wikipedia
• Newtown Old Town Hall official website
• Wikidata Q7020736

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