Dewsbury
THE TOWN HALL INCLUDING MAGISTRATES' COURT, MARKET PLACE, DEWSBURY
Grade II Listed
List Entry Number: 1134707
Details
DEWSBURY CB MARKET PLACE SE 2421 NE (Dewsbury)
8/77
18/11/77 The Town Hall, including Magistrates' Court
G.V. II
Town Hall including magistrates' courts (former police station) to rear. 1888-9 by Henry Holtom and George Arthur Fox, in 'Mixed Renaissance style' (Pevsner). Ashlar, vermiculated to ground floor and rusticated to 1st floor. Slate roofs with balustraded parapet. 3 storeys and attics. Symmetrical composition of 7 bays, including rounded corner bays, in an ABCDCBA rhythm. The B bay is repeated as the 1st return bays and these, along with the corner bays, are surmounted by French type double pavilion roofs with iron rail and segmental pedimented dormers. The centre bay is surmounted by a large 2-tier clock tower with domed top and cupola. The 1st tier has a round arched opening to each face surmounted by a triangular pediment on paired Composite columns. Large urn at each corner. The 2nd tier has a clock to each face surmounted by a segmental pediment. The central bay breaks forward and a flight of stone steps leads to the round-arched 1st floor entrance in a portico of paired Ionic columns supporting full dentilled entablature with balcony over. The treatment at 1st floor is similar, the whole being surmounted by a triangular pediment the tympanum of which is richly carved with coat of arms supported by foliage. Ground and 1st floor windows are square headed. 2nd floor windows are round arched, paired to bays C, and bays B have flanking, Composite columns supporting a pediment.
The Wakefield Road side elevation is of 15 bays the centre 3 of which break forward and are surmounted by pavilion roof. Central entrance with broken segmental pediment. Later iron and glass canopy.
Listing NGR: SE2476021735
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1134707
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Dewsbury Town Hall.
The Town Hall Building in Dewsbury has been used many time for TV including a Touch of Frost and the Beiderbecke Affair, it was to the courtroom of Dewsbury Town Hall that Peter Sutcliffe, the infamous Yorkshire Ripper, was taken after his arrest in January 1981 to be formally charged before magistrates.
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The Good Samaritan.
This sculpture in front of the Town Hall was made by Ian Judd and is dedicated by Kirklees M.C. to the people of Dewsbury to mark the pedestrianisation of the town centre in 1991.
Dewsbury
THE TOWN HALL INCLUDING MAGISTRATES' COURT, MARKET PLACE, DEWSBURY
Grade II Listed
List Entry Number: 1134707
Details
DEWSBURY CB MARKET PLACE SE 2421 NE (Dewsbury)
8/77
18/11/77 The Town Hall, including Magistrates' Court
G.V. II
Town Hall including magistrates' courts (former police station) to rear. 1888-9 by Henry Holtom and George Arthur Fox, in 'Mixed Renaissance style' (Pevsner). Ashlar, vermiculated to ground floor and rusticated to 1st floor. Slate roofs with balustraded parapet. 3 storeys and attics. Symmetrical composition of 7 bays, including rounded corner bays, in an ABCDCBA rhythm. The B bay is repeated as the 1st return bays and these, along with the corner bays, are surmounted by French type double pavilion roofs with iron rail and segmental pedimented dormers. The centre bay is surmounted by a large 2-tier clock tower with domed top and cupola. The 1st tier has a round arched opening to each face surmounted by a triangular pediment on paired Composite columns. Large urn at each corner. The 2nd tier has a clock to each face surmounted by a segmental pediment. The central bay breaks forward and a flight of stone steps leads to the round-arched 1st floor entrance in a portico of paired Ionic columns supporting full dentilled entablature with balcony over. The treatment at 1st floor is similar, the whole being surmounted by a triangular pediment the tympanum of which is richly carved with coat of arms supported by foliage. Ground and 1st floor windows are square headed. 2nd floor windows are round arched, paired to bays C, and bays B have flanking, Composite columns supporting a pediment.
The Wakefield Road side elevation is of 15 bays the centre 3 of which break forward and are surmounted by pavilion roof. Central entrance with broken segmental pediment. Later iron and glass canopy.
Listing NGR: SE2476021735
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1134707
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Dewsbury Town Hall.
The Town Hall Building in Dewsbury has been used many time for TV including a Touch of Frost and the Beiderbecke Affair, it was to the courtroom of Dewsbury Town Hall that Peter Sutcliffe, the infamous Yorkshire Ripper, was taken after his arrest in January 1981 to be formally charged before magistrates.
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The Good Samaritan.
This sculpture in front of the Town Hall was made by Ian Judd and is dedicated by Kirklees M.C. to the people of Dewsbury to mark the pedestrianisation of the town centre in 1991.