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The Music Hall

A Grade II Listed Building in Shrewsbury, Shropshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.7071 / 52°42'25"N

Longitude: -2.7548 / 2°45'17"W

OS Eastings: 349101

OS Northings: 312430

OS Grid: SJ491124

Mapcode National: GBR BJ.2GH0

Mapcode Global: WH8BT.N6FZ

Plus Code: 9C4VP64W+V3

Entry Name: The Music Hall

Listing Date: 30 May 1969

Last Amended: 17 November 1995

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1254928

English Heritage Legacy ID: 458372

Also known as: Music Hall, Shrewsbury
Music Hall
Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery

ID on this website: 101254928

Location: Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY1

County: Shropshire

Civil Parish: Shrewsbury

Built-Up Area: Shrewsbury

Traditional County: Shropshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Shropshire

Church of England Parish: Shrewsbury St Chad

Church of England Diocese: Lichfield

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Description



SJ4912SW
653-1/15/671
30/05/69

SHREWSBURY
THE SQUARE
(South West side)
The Music Hall
(Formerly Listed as:
THE SQUARE
Nos.11 AND 12
The Music Hall)

GV
II

Formerly known as: No.11 THE SQUARE.
Civic hall. 1839. By Edward Hiram Haycock. Ashlar faced,
rusticated to basement storey. 3 storeys, 5-window range.
Neo-classical, with pedimented advanced central bay. Giant
Ionic portico over basement storey, which has central entrance
flanked by tripartite windows with console brackets to
entablatures. Upper windows behind the portico are 24-pane
sashes in stressed architraves with entablatures to first
floor, the central pedimented. Flanking bays have plain
tripartite windows to lower floor, 24-pane sashes above, with
pedimented heads.
INTERIOR: substantially altered. The building now incorporates
the former Masonic Hall (Former Masonic Temple, College Hill,
qv) as its main functions room. The hall of the former
Vaughan's Mansion (qv) is also incorporated in the complex.

Listing NGR: SJ4910112430

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