Holborn Town Hall
| Holborn Town Hall | |
|
Middlesex | |
|---|---|
 Holborn Town Hall | |
| Type: | former town hall |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TQ30368145 |
| Location: | 51°31’1"N, 0°7’22"W |
| Town: | Holborn |
| History | |
| Address: | High Holborn |
| Built 1894 | |
| By: | William Rushworth (1894 hall) Septimus Warwick and H Austen Hall (1908 extension) |
| former town hall | |
| French Renaissance style | |
| Information | |
Holborn Town hall is a municipal building on High Holborn in Holborn, Middlesex, at the edge of the City of London. It is a Grade II listed building.[1]
History
The facility, which was designed by William Rushworth in the French Renaissance style opened as a library in 1894.[1] Following the creation of the Metropolitan Borough of Holborn in 1900, consideration was given to expanding the old Holborn Town Hall on Gray's Inn Road but this proposal was rejected on the grounds that the old building would be difficult to adapt.[2] Instead the new library building on High Holborn was extended to the west to the designs of Septimus Warwick and H. Austen Hall in a similar and symmetrical style to create a town hall for the new borough in 1908.[2] The First International Syndicalist Congress, a meeting of European and Latin American syndicalist organizations, was held at the town hall from 27 September to 2 October 1913.[3]
The building on High Holborn ceased to function as the local of seat of government when an enlarged Camden Council was formed in 1965, and was subsequently put to other uses, including restaurant use (on the ground floor) and offices (above).[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 National Heritage List 1378893: Holborn Town Hall and Library (Grade II listing)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 'London's Town Halls' (Historic England), page 37
- ↑ Thorpe, Wayne (1989). "The Workers Themselves": Revolutionary Syndicalism and International Labour, 1913–1923. Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 71-84. ISBN 0-7923-0276-1.
- ↑ "Holborn Town Hall, 193–197 High Holborn, London WC1V 7BD". Hannover Green. https://realla-media.freetls.fastly.net/uploads/property/brochures/original/LPYGURAICcOtyx_ye-wS9w. Retrieved 25 April 2020.