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31: 167: 281:. The statue of the Earl of Leicester on the top of the parapet was hit by a bolt of lightning in June 1950; the head was shattered and the rest of the statue was subsequently demolished. The building was remodelled to create a dance floor in the stalls area in 1961. After a change of ownership in 1975, it started operating as a bingo hall and social club, as well as a cinema. The building was later remodelled again to create a three-screen cinema and re-branded as the Orion Cinema. 174: 261:
After a public meeting in the building, in June 1859, at which 30 men enlisted for the newly formed Dereham Volunteer Rifle Corps, the building also served as the local drill hall. It appears that the building did not meet with universal acclaim as, in February 1866, an application was made to the
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In the early 1850s, a group of local businessmen decided to form a private company, known as the "East Dereham Corn Exchange Company", to finance and commission a purpose-built
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ruled that it should not be pulled down as it was "a great public improvement". However, the use of the building as a corn exchange declined significantly in the wake of the
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finish and was opened in February 1857. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage of five bays facing onto the Market Place. The bays were separated by six full-height
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The building was converted for use as a cinema in 1924 and re-branded as the Exchange Theatre after the
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A Great Estate At Work The Holkham Estate and Its Inhabitants in the Nineteenth Century
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Norfolk Annals: A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteenth Century
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in the late 19th century. The glass roof on the building was badly damaged in a
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A Norfolk Diary: Passages from the Diary of the Rev. Benjamin John Armstrong
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was installed on top of the raised parapet on 6 September 1858.
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Dereham
52°40′52″N 0°56′25″E / 52.6812°N 0.9404°E / 52.6812; 0.9404
Neoclassical style
Listed Building
Corn Exchange, Dereham is located in Norfolk
Dereham
Norfolk
listed building
corn exchange
Thomas Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester
Holkham Hall
Swaffham
neoclassical style
stucco
Corinthian order
cornice
parapet
Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester
Vice-Chancellor
Great Depression of British Agriculture
zeppelin
Second World War
Corn exchanges in England


Historic England
"Former Corn Exchange (1169492)"
National Heritage List for England
The Joint Stock Companies' Directory

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