Tetbury Market House

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Tetbury Market House
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Tetbury Market House
LocationMarket Place, Tetbury
Coordinates 51°38′12″N2°09′34″W / 51.6368°N 2.1594°W / 51.6368; -2.1594
Built1655
Architectural style(s) Neoclassical style
Listed Building – Grade I
Official nameMarket House
Designated6 September 1954
Reference no.1303914
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Tetbury Market House, also known as Tetbury Town Hall, is a municipal building in the Market Place, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England. The building, which was used both as a market house and as a town hall until the late 19th century, is a Grade I listed building. [1]

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History

The current building was commissioned by the local feoffees to replace a medieval market house: the new building was designed in the neoclassical style, built with a timber frame and a stucco finish and was completed in 1655. [2] The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with seven bays facing onto the Market Place; it was arcaded on the ground floor, so that wool and yarn markets could be held, with an assembly room on the first floor. [3] On the ground floor, there were three rows of seven Tuscan order columns which supported the first floor, which was fenestrated by two-light mullioned windows and surmounted by a central pediment with a clock in the tympanum. [1]

The building was extended by an extra bay to the south sometime in the 18th century. The south elevation featured a stone staircase leading up to a first-floor doorway with a keystone and a hood mould. The staircase was flanked by small doorways on the ground floor and by two-light mullioned windows on the first floor, and there was a central pediment with a clock in the tympanum on this side as well. [1] Internally, the principal room was the assembly room on the first floor which featured a central row of wooden Ionic order columns. [1]

In the 18th century, the assembly hall on the first floor was used by the feoffees as a town hall and as a courtroom for the manorial court hearings. [4] In 1817, alterations were carried out to a design by William Porter: [5] these included the infilling of the south bay to create accommodation for a horse-drawn fire engine and the removal of an extra floor on the east side of the building. [1]

The assembly room continued to be used as a courthouse, and part of the ground floor continued to be used as a lock-up for the incarceration of petty criminals, until a purpose-built courthouse and police station was erected in Long Street in 1884. [6] A cupola with an ogee-shaped copper roof and a weather vane depicting dolphins was erected on the roof to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887. [1] The feoffees continued to administer the town from the assembly room until Tetbury Urban District Council was formed in 1894. [7] [8] The assembly room was subsequently used as a classroom for the teaching of technical subjects [9] and ground floor continued to be used as the venue for markets on Wednesdays. [10]

The annual Tetbury Food and Drink Festival, held in September each year with a farmers style market in the market hall, was first held in September 2007. [11] The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall stood outside the market hall to turn on the Christmas lights in December 2012. [12]

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  2. ↑ Lee, Alfred Theophilus (1857). "The History of the Town and Parish of Tetbury, in the County of Gloucester". John Henry and James Parker. p. 35.
  3. ↑ "The Market House". The Feoffees of Tetbury. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
  4. ↑ Cleaver, Lynne (2009). Tetbury Through Time. Amberley Publishing. ISBN   978-1445631387.
  5. ↑ Graham, Clare (2017). Ordering Law The Architectural and Social History of the English Law Court to 1914. Taylor & Francis. ISBN   978-1351913577.
  6. ↑ Historic England. "Former police station and petty sessional court, now known as Tetbury Council Offices and Police Museum (1415897)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 20 January 2022.
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