Hebden Bridge Town Hall
| Hebden Bridge Town Hall | |
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Yorkshire | |
|---|---|
 Hebden Bridge Town Hall | |
| Type: | Town hall |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SD99232735 |
| Location: | 53°44’33"N, 2°-0’47"W |
| Town: | Hebden Bridge |
| History | |
| Address: | St George's Street |
| Built 1898 | |
| By: | Sutcliffe and Sutcliffe |
| Town hall | |
| Neo-Jacobean | |
| Information | |
Hebden Bridge Town Hall, formerly Hebden Bridge Council Offices, is a municipal building in St George's Street, Hebden Bridge, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It is a Grade II listed building.[1]
The town hall is today the meeting place of Hebden Royd Town Council.
History
Following significant population growth, largely associated with clothing manufacturing, Hebden Bridge was granted an urban district council in 1894.[2] In this context the new civic leaders decided to procure a town hall: the site they selected was on the west bank of the Hebden Water.[3]
The new building was designed by a local firm, Sutcliffe and Sutcliffe, in the Jacobean style, built in ashlar stone and was officially opened on 11 May 1898.[4] The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage with four bays facing onto St George's Street; the left hand section of two bays featured, in the right hand bay, an porch with an arch and a keystone on the ground floor and a mullioned and transomed window on the first floor. The central section featured a prominent oriel window on the first floor, while the right-hand section featured a wide arched opening and a doorway to the former fire station, a five light mullioned and transomed window on the first floor and a three light window on the second floor. The central and right hand sections were surmounted by pedimented gables with oculi in the tympana.[1] Internally, the principal room was the council chamber, which featured wooden panelling, on the first floor.[1]
A war memorial, in the form of a brass plaque, to commemorate the lives of local service personnel who had died in the Second Boer War, was unveiled in the entrance hall of the building in 1902.[5]
The building continued to serve as the headquarters of Hebden Bridge Urban District Council and, from 1937, of Hebden Royd Urban District Council, until abolition in 1974.
The building, left underused, began to deteriorate. However, a not-for-profit entity, Hebden Bridge Community Association, was formed and on 1 April 2010 it acquired the building on a 40-year lease, subsequently extended to 125 years, along with sufficient funds to carry out basic maintenance work,.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 National Heritage List 1230338: District Council Offices, St George's Square (Grade II listing)
- ↑ "Hebden Bridge UD". Vision of Britain. https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10098464.
- ↑ "Hebden Water and Hebden Bridge Town Hall". Being 42. 27 December 2013. https://being42.org/2013/12/27/hebden-water-and-hebden-bridge-town-hall/.
- ↑ "Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion". http://www.calderdalecompanion.co.uk/mmh4054.html.
- ↑ "Hebden Bridge Soldiers and Ambulance Volunteers". Imperial War Museum. https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/2839.
