Description

SK 2323 SE
5/95
SK 22 SW
6/95

KING EDWARD PLACE
Town Hall

GV
II
1878 and later. Gothic style. Red brick with stone dressings. The original portion built by Reginald Churchill for Michael Thomas Bass. Two storeys with gables. Each bay has a three-light window in foil-headed stone surround with mullions and transom, the lights with foil heads and quatrefoil panels below; elaborate decoration with bands of blind quatrefoils at first storey and to parapet; coped gabled and stone piers with pinnacles supporting figures of lions bearing standards.

Later portion, on left-hand side, is of 1894 and in similar style, with clock tower and doorway below in stone surround and with wrought iron porte-cochere. Two storeyed wing to left is of three bays, each with three-light stone mullioned window, the centre bay projecting and with gable and angled buttresses. Elaborate single storeyed wing on left-hand side containing concert hall has various projecting gabled bays with pointed arched windows and an arched doorway to right. Tiled roofs.

Listing NGR: SK2400123438

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Burton upon Trent Town Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26290475

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Recommended Books

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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record