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Jubilee Hall Kings Hall Town Hall

A Grade II Listed Building in Stoke-on-Trent, City of Stoke-on-Trent

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.0048 / 53°0'17"N

Longitude: -2.182 / 2°10'55"W

OS Eastings: 387886

OS Northings: 345289

OS Grid: SJ878452

Mapcode National: GBR MKK.7C

Mapcode Global: WHBCT.GQ6T

Plus Code: 9C5V2R39+W6

Entry Name: Jubilee Hall Kings Hall Town Hall

Listing Date: 19 April 1972

Last Amended: 15 March 1993

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1297959

English Heritage Legacy ID: 384408

ID on this website: 101297959

Location: Stoke-upon-Trent, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST4

County: City of Stoke-on-Trent

Electoral Ward/Division: Penkhull and Stoke

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Stoke-on-Trent

Traditional County: Staffordshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Staffordshire

Church of England Parish: Stoke upon Trent and Fenton

Church of England Diocese: Lichfield

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Description



STOKE ON TRENT

SJ8645 GLEBE STREET
613-1/9/130 (North West side)
19/04/72 Town Hall, Jubilee Hall and Kings
Hall
(Formerly Listed as:
GLEBE STREET
Town Hall)

GV II

Town Hall. Central block of 1834, north wing added in 1842,
south wing some time after 1850. Central block by Henry Ward.
Ashlar faced, flat-roofed.
2-storeyed, 5 bays, the outer and central sections of 3 & 5
bays, advanced. Central section forms entrance portico with 3
archways to ground floor beneath Ionic columns carrying deep
entablature and elevated pediment. Windows with shouldered
architraves set behind these columns. Outer bays also
pedimented, with Ionic pilasters to first floor,
segmentally-arched windows below. These sections are linked by
flanking blocks of 5 bays, with segmentally-arched windows.
Rusticated basement storey throughout, with ashlar above.
Balustrade runs along front, over cellar area.
Return elevation to Kingsway of 3 bays with heavy broken
entablature to central doorway which has architrave with Ionic
shafts banded with rusticated blocks. One bay recessed beyond
contains archway to rear yard, with heavy volute and swags
over, and open peristyle with Ionic columns above. Adjoining
to the SW, Kings Hall and Jubilee Hall were added in 1911, by
T.Wallis and J.A.Bowden.
2 storeys, 9 principal bays, the central 3 contained beneath a
pediment, and advanced slightly. Central door in heavy
surround beneath Ionic columns flanked by full-height
archways. Outer doorways enriched with heavy moulded
architrave and pediment. Detailing throughout is Mannerist in
inspiration: exaggerated detailing to doorways with heavy
volutes and swags, concave moulding around windows, broken
pediments. Long range links this entrance block with the Town
Hall, with oculi over doorways.
(The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Pugh R B:
Staffordshire: Oxford: 1963-).


Listing NGR: SJ8788645289

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