Newham Town Hall
| Newham Town Hall | |
|
Essex | |
|---|---|
 Newham Town Hall | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TQ42668352 |
| Location: | 51°31’57"N, 0°3’19"E |
| Town: | East Ham |
| History | |
| Address: | Barking Road |
| Built 1903 | |
| By: | Henry Cheers and Joseph Smith |
| Renaissance style | |
| Information | |
Newham Town Hall, formerly known as East Ham Town Hall, is a municipal building in East Ham, Essex. It is an Edwardian town hall built for East Ham's borough council, and which continues to serve as the main civic centre for its successor, which has taken the invented name 'Newham'.
The town hall is a Grade II* listed building.[1]
History
Construction and development
The building, which was designed by Henry Cheers and Joseph Smith in the Renaissance style and built by D.W. Barker, was officially opened by the philanthropist, John Passmore Edwards, on 5 February 1903.[2] The design included a 150-foot high tower.[3] An extension to the south of the main building was completed in 1910 and a three-storey annex was built to the east on Barking Road in 1939.[4]
It was established as the offices of East Ham Urban District and went on to become the headquarters of the 'Municipal Borough of East Ham' in 1904[5] which later became the 'County Borough of East Ham' in 1915.[6] In 1965 the council was abolished and its area merged with neighbours to create a new council for West Ham and East Ham, dubbed 'Newham'. The town hall continued to be the local seat of government for the new council.[4] Formal meetings of the council continue to take place in the town hall.
References
- ↑ National Heritage List 1190712: Newham Council Offices
- ↑ "Restoration makes the Grade". The Newham Magazine. 20 July 2012. https://issuu.com/newhammag/docs/issue251. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
- ↑ "The Civic Plunge Revisited". Twentieth Century Society. 24 March 2012. https://www.c20society.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/2012-2403-CivicPlungeRevisitedlowres2.pdf. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 'London's Town Halls' (Historic England), page 156
- ↑ "The Incorporation of East Ham". The Times: p. 6. 15 September 1904.
- ↑ "New London County Borough". The Times. 13 March 1914.
