Municipal Buildings, comprising the clock tower, public library, and Corn Exchange, and including the area balustrade which incorporates a war memorial and a statue of Queen Victoria

TQ 3265 9/30

KATHARINE STREET Municipal Buildings, comprising the clock tower, public library, and Corn Exchange, and including the area balustrade which incorporates a war memorial and a statue of Queen Victoria

(Formerly listed under KATHERINE STREET)

19.11.73

GV II 1892 to 1896. By Charles Henman Jnr. Complex of buildings of contrasting sizes, all in red brick with stone ornamentation. Slate roof. From east to west: town hall of two storeys with attic and basement; nine bays facing onto Katharine Street and five bays of a similar style facing onto Fell Street. Tall clock tower against south west return. To south and west again, the library, of one storey and attic and basement with steeply pitched roof and central turret. To north west, the Corn Exchange, a three storey, four bay structure with a two bay loggia above part of the external staircase. Area balustrade of stone in front of both the Town Hall and the Library, incorporating a war memorial before the western end of the Town Hall and a bronze statue to Queen Victoria opposite the centre bay of the Library.

Listing NGR: TQ3241465377

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 10 February 2017.