Yelde Hall

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The Yelde Hall
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The Yelde Hall
LocationMarket Place, Chippenham
Coordinates 51°27′29″N2°06′50″W / 51.45804°N 2.11387°W / 51.45804; -2.11387
Built1450
Architectural style(s) Medieval style
Listed Building – Grade I
Official nameThe Yelde Hall and the Council Chamber
Designated25 April 1950
Reference no.1267996
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Shown in Wiltshire

The Yelde Hall is a public facility in the Market Place, in Chippenham, Wiltshire, England. The building, which was the meeting place of Chippenham Borough Council, is a Grade I listed building. [1]

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History

Town arms from 1776, on the Yelde Hall ChippenhamArmsYeldeHall.jpg
Town arms from 1776, on the Yelde Hall

The hall was built in around 1450. [2] The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage facing onto the Market Place with the right hand section projected forward; the right hand section, which consisted of two bays, featured a short flight of steps leading up to a doorway in the left bay with a horizontal window above the doorway and two small gables above that. [1] The left hand gable contained a carving of the town arms with the inscription "JS 1776": the initials refer to John Scott who was the bailiff at that time. [2] The right hand gable at one time contained a clock which was taken down in 1851. [2]

The building was originally used as a jail (in the cellar), [3] as a courtroom (on the ground floor) and as a council chamber (upstairs). [1] The Chippenham Savings Bank operated an office in the building on Saturday mornings from 1822. [2]

Following the relocation of the town council and burgess to Chippenham Town Hall in 1834, [4] [5] the building became the drill hall for the Chippenham Volunteer Rifle Corps in 1846. [2] The unit evolved to become B Company, 2nd Volunteer Battalion, The Wiltshire Regiment in 1881 and B Company, 4th Battalion, the Duke of Edinburgh's Wiltshire Regiment in 1908. [6] [7] The regiment vacated the building when it relocated to the Little Ivy in 1911. [2] However, the building was also used as the headquarters of the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry at this time, [6] [8] and continued to be a yeomanry drill hall until the yeomanry moved its headquarters to Trowbridge in 1920. [8]

The Fire Brigade used the east end of the building from 1870 and then almost the whole building from 1911 to 1945. [2] After some restoration work in the 1950s, the building served as the Chippenham Museum from October 1963 until it relocated to the Market Place in 1999. [2]

Following a refurbishment, the building then became the North Wiltshire Tourist Information Centre in March 2003 [9] although that concern relocated to a unit adjacent to the town hall in February 2012. [10] It underwent a further refurbishment in March 2012 and then re-opened to the public as an extension of the Chippenham Museum and Heritage Centre in April 2012. [11]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Historic England. "The Yelde Hall and the Council Chamber (1267996)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 16 December 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "History of the Yelde Hall". Chippenham Council. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
  3. ↑ "Chippenham's Medieval Hall". Prison History. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  4. ↑ "The many lives of Chippenham Town Hall" (PDF). Wiltshire Life. 1 April 2019. p. 29. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  5. ↑ "Chippenham Timeline". Wiltshire Council.
  6. 1 2 "Chippenham". The Drill Hall Project. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
  7. ↑ "2nd Wiltshire Rifle Volunteer Corps". Regiments.org. Archived from the original on 7 November 2007. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
  8. 1 2 "The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry (Prince of Wales's Own)". Archived from the original on 23 October 2007. Retrieved 8 March 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  9. ↑ Chippenham Town Council (1989). Emma King (ed.). The Town Guide of Chippenham, Wiltshire. London: EJ Burrow.
  10. ↑ "Chippenham tourist centre to relocate". Gazette and Herald . 9 January 2012. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  11. ↑ "Historic Chippenham hall to re-open". Gazette and Herald. 28 March 2012. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
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