Town Halls and Civic Buildings (original) (raw)

"...the town halls of Victoria's reign.... grew up to fulfil the needs of the rapidly developed towns... In them new wealth, new patrons and a new language of architecture opened the door to a rich and sometimes strange variety of buildings" (Cunningham 1).

"The Town Hall itself must astonish many a Londoner, unaccustomed as yet to the idea of a great municipal organisatiom, when he beholds it for the first time" (about Manchester Town Hall, Dolman 38).

London and Greater London

• Former Ealing Town Hall, by Charles Jones
• Ealing Town Hall, by Charles Jones
• Leyton Town Hall, by John Johnson
• The London County Hall, by Ralph Knott
• Former County Hall, London, as extended by Higgs & Hill

Regional Town Halls and Civic Buildings

• St George's Hall, Liverpool, by Harvey Lonsdale Elmes and C. R. Cockerell
• Birmingham Town Hall, by Hansom and Welch, completed by Charles Edge
• Council House, Birmingham, by Yeoville Thomason
• Leeds Town Hall, by Cuthbert Brodrick
• Bradford Town Hall, by Lockwood & Mawson
• Manchester Town Hall, by Alfred Waterhouse
• Rochdale Town Hall, by W. H. Crossland
• Sheffield Town Hall, by Edward William Mountford
• Old Town Hall, Belfast, by Anthony Jackson
• City Hall, Cardiff, by Lanchester, Stewart and Rickards
• City Hall, Belfast, by Alfred Brumwell Thomas
• Old Town Hall, Staines, by John Johnson

Town Halls and Civic Buildings outside Britain

• Old Town Hall, New Delhi
• Town Hall, Ciechanów (Poland)
• Town Hall, Bosward (Holland)
• Town Hall (Municipio), Genoa

Bibliography

Cunningham, Colin. Victorian and Edwardian Town Halls. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981.

Curl, James Stevens. Victorian Architecture. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1990 (see "Civic Buildings," pp. 287-89).

Dolman, Frederick. Municipalities at Work: The Municipal Policy of Six Great Towns, and Its Influence on Their Social Welfare. London: Metheun, 1895. Internet Archive. Web. 9 March 2013.

Last modified 9 March 2013