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Tottenham Town Hall
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Tottenham Town Hall
LocationTown Hall Approach Road, Tottenham
Coordinates 51°35′14″N0°04′21″W / 51.5873°N 0.0724°W / 51.5873; -0.0724 Coordinates: 51°35′14″N0°04′21″W / 51.5873°N 0.0724°W / 51.5873; -0.0724
Built1905
ArchitectArnold Taylor and Rutherford Jemmett
Architectural style(s) Baroque style
Listed Building – Grade II
Designated9 August 1988
Reference no.1249634
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Shown in Haringey

Tottenham Town Hall is a municipal building in Town Hall Approach Road, Tottenham, London. It is a Grade II listed building. [1]

History

In the 19th century the local board of health met at Bruce Castle. [2] After the area became an urban district in 1895, civic leaders decided to procure purpose-built municipal offices: the site they selected for the new building had previously been occupied by four large residential properties: Eaton House, Wilton House, The Ferns and Hatfield House. [2] They decided that the new municipal offices would be flanked by a fire station to the south and swimming baths to the north both to be built in the same architectural style and at the same time as the municipal offices. [2] A school, to be built to the north of the swimming baths, was added to the scheme a few years later. [3]

The foundation stone for the new facility was laid on 6 October 1904. [2] The building was designed by Arnold Taylor and Rutherford Jemmett in the Baroque style; it was officially opened by the Chairman of the Council, T H Camp, on 2 November 1905. [1] The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with seven bays facing onto Town Hall Approach Road; the central section of five bays featured a doorway with a stone surround flanked by Tuscan order pilasters on the ground floor; there were tall rounded-headed windows with Gibbs surround arches flanked with Ionic order columns in the centre and Ionic order pilasters beyond on the first floor; there was a cupola with a clock at roof level. [1] The principal room was the council chamber on the first floor. [1]

The building became the headquarters of the Municipal Borough of Tottenham as "Tottenham Town Hall" when the area secured municipal borough status in 1934. [4] In May 1962, after Tottenham Hotspur won the first FA Cup against Burnley, a victory reception was held at the town hall and Jimmy Greaves held the FA Cup trophy aloft from town hall balcony. [5]

The town hall ceased to be the local seat of government when the enlarged London Borough of Haringey was formed in 1965. [6] In the late 1980s a memorial to Cynthia Jarrett, whose death in October 1985 was the catalyst for the Broadwater Farm riot, was erected outside the town hall. [7] The building subsequently deteriorated and was placed on the Buildings at Risk Register. [8] An extensive programme of refurbishment works of the building to the designs of BPTW was completed in December 2010. [8] The works included restoration of the council chamber, which was renamed the Moselle Room after the River Moselle which flows through the area. [9] [10] The development also made land available behind the town hall for Newlon Housing Trust to create new affordable homes. [11]

The adjacent swimming baths and the fire station, which both formed part of the original composition, were redeveloped as an arts centre and as a restaurant in 2007 [12] and 2015 respectively. [13]

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  5. ↑ "Tottenham Hotspur player Jimmy Greaves holds the FA Cup trophy aloft from Tottenham Town Hall to a crowd of fans as they arrive". Alamy. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  6. ↑ "Local Government Act 1963". Legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  7. ↑ "Monument: Cynthia Jarrett". London Remembers. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
  8. 1 2 "Tottenham Town Hall". BPTW. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  9. ↑ "The Civic Plunge Revisited" (PDF). Twentieth Century Society. 24 March 2012. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  10. ↑ "Forget France - London Has Its Own River Moselle". The Londonist. 6 July 2018. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  11. ↑ "Hall of fame: landmark Tottenham Town Hall starts new page in its history". Tottenham Independent. 10 December 2009. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
  12. ↑ "Bernie Grant Arts Centre". AJ Buildings Library. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
  13. ↑ "Planning Committee: Old Fire Station, Town Hall Approach Road". London Borough of Haringay. 23 July 2015. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
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