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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery at Wikipedia
• Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery official website
• Wikidata Q6941532

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Recommended Books

• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)