Moot Hall, Daventry

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LocationChapel Lane, Daventry
Coordinates 52°15′32″N1°09′38″W / 52.2588°N 1.1605°W / 52.2588; -1.1605 Coordinates: 52°15′32″N1°09′38″W / 52.2588°N 1.1605°W / 52.2588; -1.1605
Built1769
Architectural style(s) Neoclassical style
Listed Building – Grade II*
Official nameMoot Hall
Designated4 December 1953
Reference no.1067667
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The Moot Hall is a municipal building in Chapel Lane in Daventry, Northamptonshire, England. The building, which was the headquarters of Daventry Borough Council, is a Grade II* listed building. [1]

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History

The first moot hall in the town was a medieval structure erected on the east side of New Street in around 1150. [2] In the early 19th century civic leaders decided to demolish the old moot hall and, as a replacement, to make appropriate alterations to an existing house in Chapel Lane, which had been designed in the neoclassical style and built in ironstone in 1769. [2] The design of the house involved a symmetrical main frontage with three bays facing onto Abbey Street; the ground floor featured three round headed windows with archivolts and keystones flanked by niches created with short Doric order pilasters and entablatures. [1] At the corners of the ground floor there were larger Doric order pilasters supporting a wider entablature and a cornice. [1] The first and second floors featured sash windows with archivolts and keystones and at roof level there was a modillioned pediment. [1] A cupola and a weather vane were erected at roof level. [1]

In 1806, following its acquisition by the town authorities, the Chapel Lane building was remodelled to create a new moot hall with the Chapel Lane elevation and much of the internal structure being rebuilt in red brick. [3] A new porch was erected on that elevation and the pediment on the Abbey Street side was augmented by the installation of a 17th century clock, which had been recovered from the old moot hall, in the tympanum. [2] The original staircase from the building was transferred to the Manor House in Welton. [4] The moot hall became the meeting place of the local borough council as well as the venue for the weekly hearings of the local magistrates' courts. [5] The original mechanically operated clock was replaced with an electrically operated one during the mid-20th century. [2]

The moot hall continued to serve as the headquarters of the borough council for much of the 20th century [6] but ceased to be the local seat of government after the enlarged Daventry District Council was formed with its offices in Church Walk in 1974. [7] [8] A local history museum was established in the moot hall in the early 1980s: items on display included the original mechanically operated clock as well as a set of imperial measures, typically held by local authorities to ensure tradesmen comply with the Weights and Measures Act 1824. [9] The building also accommodated the local tourist information office at that time. [10]

After the museum and tourist information office moved to New Street in 2004, the moot hall operated as an Indian restaurant from May 2006 [11] and then saw a variety of commercial uses before being converted to become a children's nursery in January 2020. [12]

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  2. 1 2 3 4 "Daventry Self-Guided Walk" (PDF). Daventry Town Council. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
  3. ↑ Lewis, Samuel (1831). A Topographical Dictionary of England. S. Lewis & Co. p. 11.
  4. ↑ Pevsner, Nikolaus; Bailey, Bruce; Isham, Sir Gyles; Cherry, Brigid. The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire. Penguin Books. p. 173. ISBN   978-0-14-071022-9.
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  9. ↑ "Made to measure". Daventry Express. 11 March 2017. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
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  12. ↑ "Cherry Blossom Day Nursery". Northampton County Council. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
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