The old town hall, municipal building, Chipping Norton, West Oxfordshire, England, UK, OX7 5NA
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Tony Smith / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
2JPB8W6File size:
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4884 x 3648 px | 41.4 x 30.9 cm | 16.3 x 12.2 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
31 July 2022Location:
Chipping Norton, West Oxfordshire, England, UK, OX7 5NAMore information:
Chipping Norton Town Hall is a municipal building in the Market Place, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England. The building, which is used as an events venue, is a Grade II* listed building. The first municipal building in the town was a guildhall which was built for the Guild of the Holy Trinity in 1520. The new building was designed by George Stanley Repton in the Palladian style, built in ashlar stone and was completed in 1842. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with nine bays facing onto the east side of the High Street. It featured a flight of seven steps leading up to a tetrastyle portico with Doric order columns supporting an entablature and a pediment; there were niches in the outer bays on the front elevation. The western elevation was arcaded on the ground floor and was fenestrated by seven tall sash windows flanked by pilasters supporting an entablature; there were again niches in the end bays, which slightly projected forward. The end elevations were arcaded on the ground floor and were fenestrated by rows of three sash windows flanked by pilasters supporting entablatures and pediments. The northern pediment contained a clock in the tympanum and was surmounted by a bellcote. Internally, the principal rooms on the ground floor were the four cells for the incarceration of pretty criminals, the weighbridge for measuring the weight of goods being traded and the space for the horse-drawn fire engine, while the principal room on the first floor was the council chamber which was also used as a court room