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St Columb Major Town Hall

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and three have been infilled with windows with glazing bars. Above the ground floor openings there are a series of rectangular panels. The first floor is fenestrated by five round headed windows, also with voussoirs and keystones. At the east end, there is a blocked doorway flanked by a full height
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Since local government re-organisation in 1974, it has accommodated the offices of St Columb Major Town Council and been the venue for their meetings. The building also accommodates the local public library, which, since 2018, has been managed by the town council.
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In 1913, a cinema known as "The Picture Palace" started showing silent films in the town hall; it became the "Town Hall Cinema" in the late 1920s and "Neath's Non-Flam Pictures" in the 1930s, before closing as a cinema in February 1945.
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each year for some 500 years, starts with the silver ball being thrown up in the Market Place close to the town hall, and the two teams then compete to take possession of the ball and place it in their own goal.
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stone front and sides, and was completed in 1848. It originally accommodated monthly meetings of the
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The design involves a symmetrical main frontage of five bays facing onto the Market Place. It is
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on the ground floor and features five round headed openings with
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The current building was commissioned to replace an ancient
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depicting the original market house before it was demolished
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Municipal building in St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
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St Columb Major Town Hall is located in Cornwall
St Columb Major
Cornwall
50°26′07″N 4°56′24″W / 50.4352°N 4.9401°W / 50.4352; -4.9401
Listed Building
1144107

William Henry Brooke
St Columb Major
Cornwall
listed building
market house
neoclassical style
rubble masonry
ashlar
magistrates' court
county court
Cornish hurling
Shrove Tuesday
rusticated
voussoirs
keystones
fanlights
frieze
cupola
cornice
parapet
grade II* listed
Grade II* listed buildings in Cornwall (Q–Z)

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