Description

TAMWORTH

SK2003NE MARKET STREET
670-1/9/128 Town Hall
11/05/50

GV II*

Town Hall and butter market. 1701; extension of 1811 was
rebuilt 1845. For Sir Thomas Guy. Chequer brick with ashlar
dressings; hipped tile roof with brick lateral stacks.
2-storey rectangular structure with arcaded ground floor and
2-storey extension to rear. Ground floor has 2-bay arcade on
Doric columns with archivolts and keystones, string course
above; 1st floor has quoins and top modillioned cornice and
pediment; 2 round-arched windows with keystones over
small-paned glazing flank architraved plaque with pediment and
inscription recording erection; Sir T.Guy's coat of arms to
apron; oval cartouche with town arms above; clock face to
pediment. Roof has hexagonal louvre with modillioned cornice
and ogival cupola with wind vane. 5-window returns have 1st
floor windows with rubbed brick flat arches and keystones over
small-paned cross-casements; left return has blind window and
lateral stack. Extension has 2-window range and 3-window
returns: older brick work to plinth; platt band over ground
floor and boxed eaves; entrance to left return up steps has
ashlar doorcase with pilasters and entablature and 6-panel
door; windows with rubbed brick flat arches and keystones over
small-paned cross-casements; 2 lateral stacks to right return.

INTERIOR: open ground floor has longitudinal arcade supporting
chamfered beams; rooms have cornices and architraved windows;
open-well stair with stick balusters and wreathed handrail;
1st floor council chamber has ceiling with fluted fans to
angles, air vents to angles and flanking fireplace, which is
early C19, marble with grate; 1814 Royal Arms opposite gallery
with turned balusters and moulded rail; paired 6-panel doors;
roof to 1701 part has pegged collar trusses with diagonal
braces, trusses to former hip remain. History: Sir Thomas Guy
was an important local benefactor, founder of the Guy's
Almshouses, Tamworth, and of Guy's Hospital, London. Sir
Robert Peel P.M. helped fund the addition, and he made his
Tamworth Manifesto address here in 1835.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London:
1974-: 278).

Listing NGR: SK2072803960

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Town Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17532081

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