Description

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TOWN OF DONCASTER
MARKET PLACE (east side)
Former Woollen Market Hall to north of The Magdalen Hotel

GV
II

Wool market, now general market. 1861-3, designed by J Butterfield for Doncaster Corporation. Brick and cast and wrought iron construction with slate and glass roof. Tall single storey, nine bays by seven bays with four internal arcades supporting four ranges of roof.

Market Road elevation is of brick with stone dressings and has nine bays, articulated by brick pilasters with stone capitals. Each bay except entrance to left, has three adjoining semi-circular headed openings with stone sills, flush brick arches with stepped voussoirs and metal windows, which have radial glazing to the heads. Bay seven has inserted entrance below the windows. Original entrance to left has segmental arched opening with corniced ashlar keystone and ashlar imposts; C20 door and glazing within. Gable above with raked cornice and stone copings. Corbelled cornice and stone copings to other bays. Hipped roofs. Other sides of the building to north and west have arcades of cast iron columns with arched braces over the capitals, supporting decorative pierced iron beams with cornice-like gutters to top. All arches are now filled in with later glazing or blocking.

Entrance to Market Place, to right of western elevation, has segmental iron arch with pierced beam over flanked by panelled piers with ball finials to top, all now filled in with later doors and glazing. Hipped slate roofs with ridges glazed.

Interior has 4 arcades of similar piers and beams supporting roof made up of thin tensioned wrought iron rods, bolted together.

Listed partly for historic interest.

Listing NGR: SE5767003545

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26444272

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)