Description

Begun Alexander Cullen 1906-07 (library section) resumed
1912, opened July 1914, hall added 1928 Cullen Lochhead
and Brown. Edwardian Baroque of EA Rickards School, 2-
storey and 2-storeys of basements quadrangular plan.
Main south-west elevation 17 bays, broad central
entrance bay projects boldly with concave angles,
channel-jointed with wide entrance door framed in Doric
columns and broad-channelled pilasters and approached
by steps within concave parapets flanked by ornamental
cast-iron standards; arched trompe window above with
swagged keyblock framed in broad Ionic pilasters and
segmental pediment with armorial panel, solid attic
above with lions heads; 5 flanking bays to either side
have balustraded basement areas, round arched ground
floor windows with quintuple keyblocks, architraved
first floor windows with canted aprons set in coupled
Ionic columns and balustraded parapets; 3rd and 15th
bays side entrance bays are slightly advanced, astylar
and channel-jointed throughout with 1st floor balconies
on console brackets, and solid panelled parapets, 2nd
and 16th bays are boldly advanced 4-storey stair towers
with pilaster strips, long windows on front face, giant
trompe arches encompass upper two stages, breaking
through pediments to domed octagonal top stages, the
splayed sides concave with urns; end bays echo Ionic
treatment of intermediate bays on a different plane set
back slightly from the line of the towers, single Ionic
columns set in channelled pilaster strips with bold urns
over semi-octagonal piers at the angles. South east
elevation 8 bays, end bays giant channel-pilastered and
pedimented, ground floor windows arched with quintuple
keyblocks, upper windows doric columned and linked by
swags to circular attic windows, all within shallow
Ionic arched recesses. Inner bays have similar treatment
to intermediate bays of main front but with panelled
Doric pilasters instead of Ionic columns and an
unchannelled treatment at ground floor, the arched
windows of which extend downwards to encompass the
paired windows at upper basement level; balustraded
parapet to park at lower basement level. North west
elevation returns with similar treatment to front of
Town Hall, 5-bay front with channel-pilastered and
balustraded stair towers of the same height enclosing a
single storey 3-bay portico of coupled Doric columns:
recessed 3-bay centre gable rises a storey higher,
segmentally arched 2nd floor windows with swagged
keyblocks, broken segmental pediment against segmental
gable.

Statement of Interest

Competition with George Washington Browne, refered

Masonry Robert Park of Mother using Stirling stone. The

Town Hall was endowed by William Mee<>

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Hamilton Townhouse at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17850655

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