| Epsom Town Hall | |
|---|---|
 Epsom Town Hall | |
| Location | The Parade, Epsom |
| Coordinates | 51°19′58″N0°15′54″W / 51.3329°N 0.2650°W Coordinates: 51°19′58″N0°15′54″W / 51.3329°N 0.2650°W |
| Built | 1934 |
| Architect | Hubert Moore Fairweather and William Alfred Pite |
| Architectural style(s) | Neo-Georgian style |
  Shown in Surrey | |
Epsom Town Hall is a municipal building in The Parade, Epsom, Surrey, England. It is the headquarters of Epsom and Ewell Borough Council.
The first town hall in Epsom was a building designed by John Hartchard-Smith in the Italianate style which was completed in 1883; located at the corner of Church Street and Upper High Street, it was built with terracotta facings and featured a prominent Venetian window in the middle of a curved corner frontage. [1] [2] In the early 1930s, civic leaders decided to demolish the old town hall and procure a new building: the site they selected was vacant land on the north side of The Parade. [3] The site had previously been occupied by a domestic residence which was being referred to as "Cromwell House" by the 18th century. [4]
The new building was designed by Hubert Moore Fairweather and William Alfred Pite in the Neo-Georgian style and was officially opened by the former local member of parliament, Lord Ebbisham, in 1934. [5] [6] The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with seventeen bays facing onto The Parade with the end three bays at each end slightly projected forward; the central bay featured a doorway flanked by two pairs of pillars supporting a balcony with iron railings; there was a French door above the doorway on the first floor and sash windows in all other bays on the ground floor and the first floor. [6] Internally, the principal room in the building was the council chamber. [7] [8]
The building served as the headquarters of Epsom Urban District Council, and from 1937, when the area became a municipal borough, it served as the headquarters of Epsom Borough Council. [9] It remained the local seat of government when the enlarged Epsom and Ewell Borough Council was formed in 1974. [10]
In the early years of the new millennium civic leaders decided to relocate various council departments that had been accommodated around the borough into an expanded town hall facility: a new block was constructed to the east of the main building with a modern atrium and new portico which linked the two blocks: the expanded facility was brought into use in 2003. [11] In a small ceremony at the town hall in June 2019, Station-Sergeant Thomas Green, the victim of the Epsom riot which took place at the end of First World War, was commemorated when his great-grandson, David Kirkham, donated Green's service medals so they could be put on display at the local museum. [12]
Works of art in the town hall include a painting by Hendrick Danckerts depicting Nonsuch Palace [13] and a painting by William Birch depicting Epsom Downs Racecourse. [14]
Cheam is a commuter suburb now in the London Borough of Sutton, England, 10.9 miles (17.5 km) south-west of Charing Cross. It divides into North Cheam, Cheam Village and South Cheam. Cheam Village contains the listed buildings Lumley Chapel and the 16th-century Whitehall. It is adjacent to two large parks, Nonsuch Park and Cheam Park. Nonsuch Park contains the listed Nonsuch Mansion. Parts of Cheam Park and Cheam Village are in a conservation area. Cheam is bordered by Worcester Park to the north-west, Morden to the north-east, Sutton to the east, Ewell and Stoneleigh to the west and Banstead and Belmont to the south.
Epsom is the principal town of the Borough of Epsom and Ewell in Surrey, England, approximately 13.5 mi (21.7 km) south of central London. The town is first recorded as Ebesham in the 10th century and its name probably derives from that of a Saxon landowner. The earliest evidence of human activity is from the mid-Bronze Age, but the modern settlement probably grew up in the area surrounding St Martin's Church in the 6th or 7th centuries and the street pattern is thought to have become established in the Middle Ages. Today the High Street is dominated by the clock tower, which was erected in 1847-8.
Epsom and Ewell is a local government district with borough status in Surrey, England, covering the towns of Epsom and Ewell. The borough was formed as an urban district in 1894, and was known as Epsom until 1934. It was made a municipal borough in 1937. The district was considered for inclusion in Greater London in 1965 but was left unaltered by the London Government Act 1963 and the Local Government Act 1972 in 1974. However, despite being outside modern Greater London the borough was in the Metropolitan Police District until it was transferred to Surrey Police in 2000. In the May 2019 elections, the borough was held by the Epsom and Ewell Residents Association with 32 seats, Labour with 3 seats, Liberal Democrats with 2 seats, and Conservatives with 1 seat.
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Bugby Chapel is an 18th-century former chapel in the centre of Epsom, a suburban town in Surrey, England. Known by this name in reference to its Calvinistic founder William Bugby, it was also known as East Street Chapel and later, as it passed into the ownership of different religious groups, as Salem Unitarian Chapel, Salem Baptist Chapel and the Epsom and District Synagogue. More than 200 years of religious use ended when it was converted into an office. The chapel is a Grade II Listed building.
The 2015 Epsom and Ewell Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect members of Epsom and Ewell Council in England as one of the 2015 United Kingdom local elections and coinciding with the general election leading to a higher turnout than when local elections are held in a non-general election year.
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The 2019 Epsom and Ewell Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect members of Epsom and Ewell Borough Council. This was on the same day as other local elections. The entire council was up for election. The result was a gain for the incumbent Residents Associations of Epsom and Ewell, gaining 2 seats from the Conservatives but losing 1 to them as well. The Liberal Democrats regained representation on the council, gaining 2 seats from the Conservatives.