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in 1895, civic leaders decided to procure purpose-built municipal offices: the site they selected for the new building had previously been occupied by four large residential properties: Eaton House, Wilton House, The Ferns and Hatfield House. They decided that the new municipal offices would be
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flanked by a fire station to the south and swimming baths to the north both to be built in the same architectural style and at the same time as the municipal offices. A school, to be built to the north of the swimming baths, was added to the scheme a few years later.
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The foundation stone for the new facility was laid on 6 October 1904. The building was designed by Arnold Taylor and Rutherford Jemmett in the
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The adjacent swimming baths and the fire station, which both formed part of the original composition, were redeveloped as an
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was formed in 1965. In the late 1980s a memorial to Cynthia Jarrett, whose death in October 1985 was the catalyst for the
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which flows through the area. The development also made land available behind the town hall for
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with a clock at roof level. The principal room was the council chamber on the first floor.
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columns in the centre and Ionic order pilasters beyond on the first floor; there was a
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The town hall ceased to be the local seat of government when the enlarged
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Baggs, A P; Bolton, Diane K; Scarff, Eileen P; Tyack, G C (1976).
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on the ground floor; there were tall rounded-headed windows with
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Grade II listed buildings in the London Borough of Haringey
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held the FA Cup trophy aloft from town hall balcony.
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is a municipal building in Town Hall Approach Road,
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Tottenham
51°35′14″N 0°04′21″W / 51.5873°N 0.0724°W / 51.5873; -0.0724
Baroque style
Listed Building
Tottenham Town Hall is located in London Borough of Haringey
Tottenham
listed building
local board of health
Bruce Castle
urban district
Baroque style
Tuscan order
pilasters
Gibbs surround
Ionic order
cupola
Municipal Borough of Tottenham
municipal borough
Tottenham Hotspur
FA Cup
Burnley
Jimmy Greaves
London Borough of Haringey
Broadwater Farm riot
Buildings at Risk Register
River Moselle
Newlon Housing Trust
arts centre

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