Kensington Town Hall
| Kensington Town Hall | |
|
Middlesex | |
|---|---|
 Kensington and Chelsea Town Hall | |
| Type: | Civic centre |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TQ25377968 |
| Location: | 51°30’8"N, 0°11’42"W |
| Town: | Kensington |
| History | |
| Address: | Hornton Street |
| Built 1965-1976 | |
| By: | Sir Basil Spence |
| Civic centre | |
| Brutalist | |
| Information | |
| Owned by: | Kensington and Chelsea Council |
Kensington Town Hall is an angular, brick-faced concrete municipal building on Hornton Street in Kensington, Middlesex, built in the concrete-loving Brutalist style in 1976 by the great proponent of that style, Sir Basil Spence.
History
The building was commissioned in 1965 to replace the Old Town Hall, Kensington and Chelsea Town Hall when these two boroughs were abolished and a new 'Kensington and Chelsea' council created. It was built by Taylor Woodrow Construction form that year, to the designed of Sir Basil Spence in his accustomed brutalist style.[1][2][3]
Though Spence had been commissioned in 1965, it took eleven years to finish it; it was completed on 29 November 1976, ten days after Spence's death.[4] The building was opened in 1977.
The building remains the headquarters for the council.
Outside links
- Building site 1972-1975: Kensington Town Hall, RBKC Kensington Central Library
- Watercolour of Kensington and Chelsea Town Hall by the architect, Sir Basil Spence
References
- ↑ What is being proposed?. "Kensington Town Hall refurbishment | Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea". Rbkc.gov.uk. https://www.rbkc.gov.uk/newsroom/council-capital-projects/kensington-town-hall-refurbishment. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
- ↑ Altman, John (2016). In the Nick of Time - The Autobiography of John Altman, EastEnders' Nick Cotton. John Blake Publishing. ISBN 978-1786062567. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dzmtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT95&lpg=.
- ↑ 'London's Town Halls' (Historic England), page 133
- ↑ Walker, David. "Kensington and Chelsea Town Hall". http://www.c20society.org.uk/botm/kensington-and-chelsea-town-hall/. Retrieved 26 July 2015.