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31: 159: 166: 207:. In the early 1850s, a group of local businessmen decided to form a company, to be known as the "Wallingford Corn Exchange Company", to finance and commission a purpose-built corn exchange for the town. The site they selected was on the east side of the Market Place. 218:
stone and was completed in 1856. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage of three bays facing onto the Market Place. The central bay featured a round headed doorway with a carved
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from 1951 until her death in 1976. Following the completion of a major programme of refurbishment works, the building was re-opened as a theatre by
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containing a clock. The iron arches supporting the roof of the building were cast at the Wilders Foundry on Goldsmiths Lane.
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as a food and unemployment office, before falling into disuse. In 1975, the building was acquired by the local
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in 1978. It was subsequently extended at the rear such that it stretched back to Wood Street.
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The building was also used for public events: speakers included the former
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pilasters at the corners of the building. At roof level, there was a large
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Until the mid-19th century, corn merchants traded from the ground floor of
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The building was used to depict the "Causton Playhouse" in the
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in the late 19th century. It was used as a cinema during the
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Wallingford
51°35′59″N 1°07′27″W / 51.5998°N 1.1243°W / 51.5998; -1.1243
Italianate style
Listed Building
Corn Exchange, Wallingford is located in Oxfordshire
Wallingford, Oxfordshire
listed building
Wallingford Town Hall
Italianate style
ashlar
tympanum
canted
architrave
keystone
mask
Corinthian order
pilasters
entablature
sash windows
oculi
spandrels
rusticated
Doric order
pediment
Virginia
Henry Box Brown
Great Depression of British Agriculture
First World War
Second World War

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