Old Town Hall, Ealing

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Old Town Hall
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The building in 2008
LocationThe Mall, Ealing
Coordinates 51°30′51″N0°18′05″W / 51.5142°N 0.3014°W / 51.5142; -0.3014
Built1874
Architect Charles Jones
Architectural style(s) Gothic Revival style
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameNational Westminster Bank
Designated19 January 1981
Reference no.1189300
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Shown in Ealing

The Old Town Hall is a former municipal building in the Mall in Ealing, London. The building, which is currently used as a branch of National Westminster Bank, is a Grade II listed building. [1]

History

The building was commissioned by the Ealing Local Board which was established in 1863. [2] The site the board selected, which was on the north side of The Mall, was just south of Ealing Station on the District Railway. [3]

The building was designed by the town surveyor, Charles Jones, in the Gothic Revival style, built in rubble masonry and was completed in 1874. [4] [5] The design involved an asymmetric main frontage of six bays facing onto The Mall. The first bay on the left, which was slightly projected forward, featured a bay window on the ground floor, a tri-partite mullioned window on the first floor and a gable above. The third bay also contained a bay window on the ground floor. The fifth bay, which was also slightly projected forward, featured a three-stage tower; there was an arched doorway flanked by colonettes supporting an archivolt in the first stage, an arched window containing a quatrefoil in the second stage and a lancet window in the third stage, all surmounted by a mansard roof with dormers and brattishing. The right-hand bay contained a doorway surmounted by a panel inscribed with the word "Offices" and by another quatrefoil. The other bays were fenestrated by arched windows on the ground floor and by sash windows on the first floor. [6] Internally, the principal room was the board room, which was located behind the bay windows on the ground floor. [7]

The architectural historian, Nikolaus Pevsner, liked the design and referred to it as "more daring than most suburban municipal buildings of this date". [8] [9]

However, with a decade, the building was considered too small for municipal use and a new town hall, also designed by Charles Jones, was completed on New Broadway in 1888. [10] The local board decided to dispose of the old town hall which was converted for use as a bank. It became the local branch of London and County Bank in 1889. It was then rebranded as London County and Westminster Bank in 1909, [11] Westminster Bank in 1923 [12] and National Westminster Bank in 1970. [13] [14]

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References

  1. ↑ Historic England. "National Westminster Bank (1189300)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 9 August 2024.
  2. ↑ "150 Years of Ealing Council". Around Ealing. 1 May 2013. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
  3. ↑ "Ordnance Survey Map". 1900. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
  4. ↑ "Remembering an important Ealing man". Wimbledon SW19. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
  5. ↑ "Charles Jones". London Remembers. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
  6. ↑ "Former Town Hall, The Mall, Ealing". The Victorian Web. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
  7. ↑ "London's Town Halls". Historic England. p. 53. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
  8. ↑ Cherry, Bridget; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2002). London 3: North West (Buildings of England Series). Yale University Press. p. 175. ISBN   978-0300096521.
  9. ↑ "Ealing Town Centre Plaques Walk" (PDF). Ealing Civic Society. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
  10. ↑ Historic England. "Ealing Town Hall (1358791)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 9 August 2024.
  11. ↑ "London and County Bank". British Banking History Society. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
  12. ↑ "Westminster Bank Ltd". NatWest Group Heritage Hub. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
  13. ↑ Oates, Jonathan; Lang, Paul Howard (2013). Ealing Through Time. Amberley Publishing. ISBN   978-1445617213.
  14. ↑ "National Westminster Bank plc". NatWest Group, Heritage Hub. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
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