Clock Tower on Redesdale Market Hall, High Street, Moreton-in-Marsh, Evenlode Valley, Cotswold District Council, Gloucestershire, England, UK,GL56 0LW
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5145 x 3202 px | 43.6 x 27.1 cm | 17.2 x 10.7 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
31 July 2022Location:
High St, Moreton-in-Marsh, Evenlode Valley, Cotswold District Council, Gloucestershire, England, UK,More information:
Redesdale Hall, also referred to as Moreton-in-Marsh Town Hall, is a municipal building in the High Street, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, England. The building, which is used as an events venue, is a Grade II listed building The opportunity to replace an old 18th century market hall, which had become dilapidated, arose following the death of the writer of religious polemics, John Freeman-Mitford, 1st Earl of Redesdale, in 1886. The earl, who had died unmarried, left all his estates to his distant cousin, Algernon Freeman-Mitford, who duly became lord of the manor and decided to erect a new building, in memory of his generous cousin, for benefit of the inhabitants of the town. It was designed by Sir Ernest George and Harold Peto in the Free Tudor style, built by Peto Brothers of Pimlico in ashlar stone and was officially opened by the Minister without Portfolio, Sir Michael Hicks Beach, on 2 December 1887. The design involved a near-symmetrical main frontage with six bays facing east down Oxford Street; the ground floor was arcaded, although never used as a market hall as such. On the first floor, the first bay was blind; the second, third and fifth bays were fenestrated by four-light mullioned windows; the fourth bay featured a sundial which was surmounted by a chimney stack, while the sixth bay was fenestrated by a single mullioned window. The south elevation featured a panel containing the Redesdale coat of arms. The north and south elevations were fenestrated by pairs of two-light mullioned windows, reaching up into the gables, while the west elevation was fenestrated by a series of four-light mullioned windows. There were buttresses at the corners of the building and, at roof level, there was a square clock tower surmounted by a crown steeple. Internally, the principal room was the assembly hall on the first floor with featured stained glass windows depicting the coats of arms of Algernon Freeman-Mitford and his wife, Clementina