Town Hall (Alnwick)
Town Hall, Alnwick. Photo Northumberland County Council, 1970.
(NU 18651328) Town Hall. (1)
5330 MARKET PLACE (West Side)
Town Hall (formerly listed under Fenkle Street)
NU 1813 SE 1/50 20.2.52
Grade I. GV
1731; clock tower by Mr Bell 1767 and corner spires of tower by Mr George Hastings 1771.
Two storeys and five bays. Ashlar with rusticated quoins. Band course to high parapet. Steps to boxed porch on first floor to right. Hipped slate roof with clock tower behind ridge. Larger glazing bar sash windows on first floor with moulded architraves. Small glazing bar sash windows on ground floor. Twentieth century shop front with recessed doorway to left. Boldly rusticated central archway to through passage. Memorial tablet over central first floor window reads: 'This Town House of the Burgesses of Alnwick rebuilt in the year of Our Lord 1731 by Edward Grey, Richard Grieve, William Forster, Robert Claxton: Chamberlains.' To the left is a lead rainwater pipe head with fluted cap, the box has a St Michael and Dragon on three faces and also the names Stother, Forster, Gibson, Hardy and the date 1790 (possibly for roof repairs).
The Fenkle Street front breaks forward slightly to the tower bay of three stages; a band course above each stage and an open pediment and parapet above to each side; it is capped by a small pointed cupola with a weathervane and corner pinnacles. A clock on each face with louvered openings below (original clock removed to Pottergate Tower qv 1772).
A round headed window at the top of the third stage and a smaller one at the base of the second stage with raised surrounds. Boldly rusticated through passage archway at the base. Two glazing bar sash windows on each side of the tower with moulded architraves; doorway to right with raised surround; similar doorway to left now a window. (2)
Additional references (3-8)
5330 MARKET PLACE (West Side)
Town Hall (formerly listed under Fenkle Street)
NU 1813 SE 1/50 20.2.52
Grade I. GV
1731; clock tower by Mr Bell 1767 and corner spires of tower by Mr George Hastings 1771.
Two storeys and five bays. Ashlar with rusticated quoins. Band course to high parapet. Steps to boxed porch on first floor to right. Hipped slate roof with clock tower behind ridge. Larger glazing bar sash windows on first floor with moulded architraves. Small glazing bar sash windows on ground floor. Twentieth century shop front with recessed doorway to left. Boldly rusticated central archway to through passage. Memorial tablet over central first floor window reads: 'This Town House of the Burgesses of Alnwick rebuilt in the year of Our Lord 1731 by Edward Grey, Richard Grieve, William Forster, Robert Claxton: Chamberlains.' To the left is a lead rainwater pipe head with fluted cap, the box has a St Michael and Dragon on three faces and also the names Stother, Forster, Gibson, Hardy and the date 1790 (possibly for roof repairs).
The Fenkle Street front breaks forward slightly to the tower bay of three stages; a band course above each stage and an open pediment and parapet above to each side; it is capped by a small pointed cupola with a weathervane and corner pinnacles. A clock on each face with louvered openings below (original clock removed to Pottergate Tower qv 1772).
A round headed window at the top of the third stage and a smaller one at the base of the second stage with raised surrounds. Boldly rusticated through passage archway at the base. Two glazing bar sash windows on each side of the tower with moulded architraves; doorway to right with raised surround; similar doorway to left now a window. (2)
Additional references (3-8)
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