Description

SE13NW BINGLEY MAIN STREET (south side) Cottingley

6/119 Town Hall 30.4.82 II

Built as non-denominational chapel and town hall combined. c1864. Dressed stone, Welsh blue-slate roof. 2 storey, town hall with chapel behind. 3-bay symmetrical facade. Central bay breaking forward. Plinth. 1st-floor sill band. Doorway has pilasters with panelled spandrels to fan-light arch and cornice over on elongated consoles. Flanking windows have cornices on console brackets. lst-floor has central round-arched window, the flanking windows have stilted archivolts with keystones. Dentilled cornice with break to middle bay which is flanked by pairs of consoles with front rising above break to volute-supported clock face with curved cornice surmounted by bellcote. Hipped roof. Left and right return walls of 5 bays. 1st bay has 2-light window with single light above. Other bays set back from chapel with 4 bays of tall round-headed windows with archivolts on consoles,intersecting glazing bars to heads (5th bay blind). Dentilled cornice with lateral stack. Ventilator on ridge.

Listing NGR: SE1181636929

External Links

• Town Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26600750

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Recommended Books

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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)