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Wetherby Town Hall

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The town hall has rooms available for public hire and an office used by the town council. Several groups use the facilities and occasional craft and antique fairs are held on Thursdays to coincide with market day. Trade events and public consultations are held in the town hall. The use of the town
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Wetherby's first town hall occupied the same site on the Market Place. It was a small plain building with little decoration, a clock on the front and bell tower. Its northern side had an external staircase to the first floor where civic and county court functions were carried out. The ground floor
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The town hall's foundation stone was laid in 1845 and the building was completed at a cost of £1,300 which was raised by public subscription. The new building was used for the county court, assembly rooms, a reading room, a small gaol, and had a ground-floor schoolroom. In 1846 the schoolroom was
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The town hall was used as a court house until Wetherby Magistrates Court was built in the 1960s. The town hall's south side had a door to enable prisoners to be taken to the upper room but by 1962 it had gone. The main front chimney's originally had bells to summon the fire brigade.
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hall for trading activities has caused controversy with established traders who have protested about the 'cut price' sale of trading space which harms traders whose rates have helped to pay for its maintenance. In 2014 the town hall was used in place of a theatre for the filming of
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In 1845 William Raby, curate at Spofforth proposed that the old town hall site, together with that of the adjacent chapel should be the location for the new town hall and a
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but was beset by problems. The church was assured the schoolroom would be used as a Sunday school in perpetuity but that use ended with the opening of a hall adjacent to
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Wetherby town centre at the time of the Great Sale in 1824. The old town hall (4) and chapel of ease (5) are shown.
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the town hall was requisitioned by the military for billets as were the racecourse and masonic hall. The seat of
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Wetherby Town Hall masquerading as the Albatross Theatre for the filming of
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Wetherby Town Hall and its front walls are grade II listed buildings. The
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and has a Welsh slate hipped roof. Ramps were added for access in 2005.
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Municipal building in Wetherby, West Yorkshire, England
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held in the chapel. His proposal was supported by the
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moved to new offices on Westgate in the late 1930s.
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Index


Classical
Listed Building
1135070
Wetherby
Coordinates
53°55′41″N 1°23′10″W / 53.928°N 1.386°W / 53.928; -1.386
Wetherby
West Yorkshire
Grade II listed building



stocks
chapel of ease
Spofforth
national schoolroom
Sunday school
Bishop of Ripon
St James' Church
National Society
First World War
Wetherby Rural District Council

Local Government Act 1972
Leeds City Council
Classical style
sandstone

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