Marazion Town Hall

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Marazion Town Hall
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Marazion Town Hall
LocationMarket Place, Marazion, Cornwall, England
Coordinates 50°07′26″N5°28′22″W / 50.1238°N 5.4727°W / 50.1238; -5.4727
Built1871
Architectural style(s) French Renaissance style
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameThe Town Hall (Barclays Bank), Market Place
Designated9 October 1987
Reference no. 1327585
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Shown in Cornwall

Marazion Town Hall is a municipal building in the Market Place, Marazion, Cornwall, England. The town hall, which currently includes a museum on the ground floor, is a Grade II listed building. [1]

History

The current structure was commissioned to replace an old market hall which dated back at least to the mid-18th century, [2] but was substantially rebuilt in the late-18th century. [3]

The new building was designed in the French Renaissance style, built in rubble masonry and was completed in 1871. [1] The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with a two-stage clock tower facing southeast onto the Market Place; there was a doorway with a wrought iron gate flanked by brackets supporting a canopy in the first stage, a blind niche with tracery surmounted by a pair of trefoils in the second stage and, above that, a mansard roof with projecting clock faces. [1] The tower was flanked by full-height turrets surmounted by conical roofs. Internally, the council chamber on the first floor was accessed by way of a staircase in the right hand turret. [1] A lock-up for petty criminals was established at the rear of the building. [4]

On account of the relatively small population of the town, [5] the borough council, which had met in the town hall, was abolished under the Municipal Corporations Act 1883. [6] The building was subsequently transferred to a specially formed entity, the Marazion Town Trust, with the mayor, Thomas Lean, becoming the first chairman of the trust. [7] The building comprises the council chamber and St Thomas's Hall on the first floor, [8] [9] whilst the ground floor of the building was originally a market hall, but became the local fire brigade headquarters (from 1892) [10] and later a seed merchants, with a bank branch at the front (from 1891) [11] and the two town lock-ups at the rear (until 1927). The bank became a sub-branch of Barclays Bank. [12]

In 1992 the ground floor of the building was converted for use as a local history museum. Items included in the collection included a 17th-century cooking pot from a foundry near Taunton in Somerset [13] and an exhibition associated with the Queen Elizabeth-class battleship, HMS Warspite, which ran aground under tow on rocks near Prussia Cove, 3 miles (4.8 km) to the east of the town, in 1947 [14] and was subsequently broken up on Marazion beach between 1950 and 1956. [15] The local parish council became Marazion Town Council in 1974, which meets in the council chamber in the town hall, [16] although it chose to use the more spacious All Saints Church Hall as the meeting place during COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, but continued to post notices of its meetings on the notice board outside the town hall. [17]

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References

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  2. ↑ Lach-Szyrma, Wladislaw Somerville (1887). "A Church History of Cornwall and of the Diocese of Truro". E. Stock. p. 109.
  3. ↑ Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into Municipal Corporations not subject to the Municipal Corporations Act. H. M. Stationery Office. 1880. p. 76.
  4. ↑ "Marazion Museum" . Retrieved 22 December 2021.
  5. ↑ Imperial Cyclopedia. Charles Knight. 1850. p. 470.
  6. ↑ Municipal Corporations Act 1883 (46 & 46 Vict. Ch. 18) (PDF). 1883. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
  7. ↑ Noall, Cyril (1983). Book of Penzance. Barracuda Books. p. 162. ISBN   978-0860230663.
  8. ↑ "Marazion". Kelly's Directory of Cornwall. 1902. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
  9. ↑ "St. Thomas' Hall, Marazion, J.P. St. Aubyn". National Archives. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
  10. ↑ "Drawing, new door for fire engine shed, J P St Aubyn". Kresen Kernow. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
  11. ↑ "Lease, room in Market House, Marazion". Kresen Kernow. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
  12. ↑ "21 year lease; rent £20; Marazion Town Trustees to Messrs Barclays Bank Ltd". National Archives. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
  13. ↑ "Marazion's cauldron". BBC – A History of the World. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
  14. ↑ Larn, R. & Larn, B. (1991) Shipwrecks around Mounts Bay. Penryn: Tor Mark Press.
  15. ↑ Holme, Richard (2023). The last days of HMS Warspite in Cornwall 1947-1956. Windsor, United Kingdom: The World Ship Society Ltd. pp. 48–72. ISBN   978-1-9160589-7-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  16. ↑ "Marazion Town Council" . Retrieved 24 April 2024.
  17. ↑ "Council Meetings". Marazion Town Council. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
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