Stockton-on-Tees Town Hall

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Stockton-on-Tees Town Hall
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Stockton-on-Tees Town Hall
Location Stockton-on-Tees
Coordinates 54°33′51″N1°18′46″W / 54.5641°N 1.3129°W / 54.5641; -1.3129 Coordinates: 54°33′51″N1°18′46″W / 54.5641°N 1.3129°W / 54.5641; -1.3129
Built1735
Architectural style(s) Neo-Georgian style
Listed Building – Grade II*
Official nameTown Hall, High Street
Designated19 January 1951
Reference no.1139975
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Shown in County Durham

Stockton-on-Tees Town Hall is a municipal building in the High Street in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England. The building, which is the meeting place of Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council, is a Grade II* listed building. [1]

History

The first structure on the site, traditionally referred to a town house, was completed in around 1100 and rebuilt in the late 15th century. [2] A purpose-built tolbooth was erected just south of the original building in the late 17th century: it was arcaded on the ground floor to allow markets to be held and there was a lock up in the building to accommodate prisoners, as well as a meeting room on the first floor and adjoining accommodation to allow visitors to stay. [2] The building was owned by the Bishops of Durham who collected rents from use of the market stalls and the rooms above. [2]

The current structure, which was designed in the Georgian style, was completed in 1735. [1] The old tolbooth was demolished in 1744 to allow the new building to be extended. [3] [4] The design for the new building involved a symmetrical main frontage with five bays facing the market square; the left hand bay featured a round headed doorway flanked by engaged Doric order columns with the borough coat of arms placed above the doorway. [1] The side elevations displayed Venetian windows and the north elevation featured a doorway in the central bay and five round headed casement windows on the first floor. [1] At roof level there was a short clock tower with a belfry surrounded by Ionic order columns supporting a small balcony; [1] the hour-striking clock currently in place in the turret was installed by Thwaites & Reed of Clerkenwell in 1805. [5] A piazza was created to the north of the building and a market cross designed by John Shout was erected there in 1768. [3] [6] [7]

At a meeting in the town hall in 1810, the recorder of Stockton, Leonard Raisbeck, used the opportunity to advocate the need for a railway to connect the borough with the more central parts of the country. [2] The lock-up became redundant after a police station, complete with cells, was completed in West Row in 1851. [3] The building was refurbished in the 1880s and the piazza was covered over with an iron canopy in 1890. [3]

Stockton-on-Tees Municipal Borough Council acquired the building from the Bishops of Durham in 1939 in order to secure continued access to their meeting place [2] and then hosted a visit by Queen Elizabeth II, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, on 4 June 1956. [8] [9] [10] Municipal buildings, which were commissioned to provide additional office space for council officers and their departments, were built nearby, in Church Road, and completed in 1961. [11] The town hall ceased to be local seat of government when the short-lived County Borough of Teesside was formed in 1967: [12] however, its main role as a civic meeting place was restored when Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council was formed in 1974. [13] An extensive programme of refurbishment works was completed in 2011. [14]

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  5. ↑ "Clock Mechanism in Stockton Town Hall". Picture Stockton Archive: a Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees. Retrieved 15 April 2023.
  6. ↑ Historic England. "Market Cross (1139976)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 27 November 2020.
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  9. ↑ "Incredible colour footage of Stockton and Norton in 1956 as 150,000 Teessiders greeted the Queen". Teesside Live. 1 April 2018. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
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