Bodmin Town Museum

BODMIN

SX0766 MOUNT FOLLY SQUARE 629-1/3/91 (West side) Bodmin Town Museum

GV II

Public rooms. 1891. By Ralling and Tonar of Exeter. MATERIALS: squared polychrome local stone, brought to course, some rock-faced with freestone and granite dressings including mullioned windows, surrounds, string and copings. Steep dry slate roofs with coped gable ends and parapets; gable and lateral stone stacks. PLAN: irregular rectangular plan. Free Gothic style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 1:5:1-bay east front. Transomed mullioned windows. Left-hand and central bays have principal floor over 6-bays of round arches containing 3 round-arched lights. Gable-ended cross wing on left has canted 1st-floor oriel with moulded base; 5 central bays have 3-light double transomed windows with segmental heads and round-arched lights. Gable end on right has 2 slit gable ventilators over rose window over string with central figure, over central pointed-arched opening with traceried tympanum on central shaft and canted balustrade on moulded base over pair of round-arched blind niches flanked by 4-centred arched doorways with nook shafts and blind tympana over panelled doors. Gables have octagonal corbelled corner finials. Symmetrical 4-window S front has 2-light mullioned windows with round-arched lights and central round-arched doorway with nook shafts and pinnacled buttresses. INTERIOR: retains most of its original features where inspected. A striking design, strongly reminiscent of Northern Renaissance town halls.

Listing NGR: SX0714066951