Market Hall, Chipping Campden
| Market Hall | |
|
National Trust | |
|---|---|
 The Market Hall in Chipping Campden | |
| Grid reference: | SP15403955 |
| Location: | 52°3’13"N, 1°46’31"W |
| Information | |
| Website: | Market Hall |
The Market Hall in Chipping Campden, in Gloucestershire, stands in the heart of the little town, where it has stood for four hundred years.
Chipping Campden is one of the jewels of the Cotswolds, built of the honey-coloured local stone, and the Market Hall is one of a piece with it, a Jacobean market hall, surrounded by the ancient houses of the town. The hall was built in 1627 by the town's wealthy benefactor, Sir Baptist Hicks (later elevated to be Lord Campden). Sir Baptist, a wealthy mercer trading in the City of London, had also funded the building of the first guildhall for the Middlesex justices, in Clerkenwell, which was named 'Hicks Hall'.
Chipping Campden's stone-built Market Hall was built to provide shelter for market traders: the ancient stone paved floor today is lovingly worn down by hundreds of years of bustling trading.
In the 1940s the hall was almost sold to an American, but local people heroically raised the money to buy it first. They gave it to the National Trust.
 |
Outside links
|
