Stoke Newington Town Hall

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Stoke Newington Town Hall
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The Assembly Hall section of Stoke Newington Town Hall
LocationChurch Street, Stoke Newington
Coordinates 51°33′41″N0°05′00″W / 51.5615°N 0.0832°W / 51.5615; -0.0832 Coordinates: 51°33′41″N0°05′00″W / 51.5615°N 0.0832°W / 51.5615; -0.0832
Built1937
ArchitectJohn Reginald Truelove
Architectural style(s) Renaissance style (Municipal Offices) / Classical style (Town Hall and Assembly Hall)
Listed Building – Grade II
Designated10 May 1995
Reference no.1253465
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Shown in Hackney

Stoke Newington Town Hall is a municipal building in Church Street, Stoke Newington, London. It is a Grade II listed building. [1]

History

The Municipal Offices section of Stoke Newington Town Hall Stoke newington town hall 2.jpg
The Municipal Offices section of Stoke Newington Town Hall

The building was commissioned to replace the council offices in Milton Grove which had been designed by E. Fry in the Italianate style and completed in 1881. [2] After the area became a metropolitan borough in 1900, civic leaders decided that this arrangement was inadequate for their needs and that they would procure a more substantial town hall: the site chosen had previously been occupied by a 15th-century Manor House and, later, by a row of Georgian houses. [2]

The new building was designed by John Reginald Truelove and was completed in 1937. [1] The design involved a symmetrical curved frontage of fifteen bays forming municipal offices built in the Renaissance style to the west; this section, which contained the council chamber, featured a central section which was recessed with a doorway on the ground floor and a balcony and window on the first floor flanked by two huge Doric order columns. [1] This arrangement was complemented by a rectangular assembly hall with four huge Doric order columns flanked by pavilions built in the Classical style to the east. [1] A sprung Canadian maple dance floor installed in the assembly hall allowing it to be used as a dance facility. [3]

In the Second World War, the building served as the local civil defence headquarters and was heavily camouflaged to protect it from enemy bombing during the London Blitz. [4] [5]

The town hall continued to serve as the headquarters of the Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington for much of the 20th century but ceased to be the local seat of government after the formation of the London Borough of Hackney in 1965. [6] The council chamber was subsequently used as a storeroom and the assembly hall was closed, due to its state of disrepair in 1999. [3]

The building was extensively refurbished and restored to a design by Hawkins\Brown in 2010: [7] the works, which cost £6.4 million, [8] included comprehensive repairs to the wooden panelling in the council chamber and the modernisation of the assembly hall. [9] The quality of the work was recognised by the Worshipful Company of Carpenters in that year's Wood Awards. [10] [11]

Works of art in the town hall include a portrait of the former mayor of Stoke Newington, Sir Herbert John Ormond, by Henry Scott Tuke. [12]

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References

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  2. 1 2 "London's Town Halls". Historic England. p. 83. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  3. 1 2 "A tour of Stoke Newington Town Hall". Londonist. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  4. ↑ "Camouflaged buildings". Bowl of Chalk. 21 March 2013. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  5. ↑ "Stoke Newington Town Hall". London Remembers. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  6. ↑ "Local Government Act 1963". Legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  7. ↑ "Conservation: Stoke Newington Town Hall". Architects' Journal. 22 March 2010. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  8. ↑ "Stoke Newington town hall restoration by Hawkins\Brown". Architects' Journal. 3 February 2010. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  9. ↑ "The Civic Plunge Revisited" (PDF). Twentieth Century Society. 24 March 2012. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  10. ↑ "Stoke Newington Town Hall". The Wood Awards. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
  11. ↑ "Stoke Newington Town Hall". Hawkins\Brown. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
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