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Yarmouth Town Hall, Isle of Wight

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203: 31: 159: 166: 245:, using red brick and the work was completed later that year. It was arcaded on the ground floor, so that markets could be held, with an assembly room on the first floor. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with three bays facing onto The Square; there were three openings on the ground floor and three 238:. In 1763, the two burgesses met and, it was agreed, having regard to the support Holmes had received from the borough for his election to parliament, that he should commission a new town hall and donate it to the town. 485: 679: 315:
Leigh and Holmes were also related by marriage: Benjamin Leigh's wife, Mary Leigh (née Troughear), had a brother who was married to Elizabeth Holmes, a sister of Lord Holmes.
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Yarmouth had a very small electorate which, by the early 19th century, was dominated by one family (the Holmes family), which meant it was recognised by the
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town hall which had become dilapidated and was in need of replacement. In the early 1760s, the
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was installed on the front elevation of the building and unveiled by Major-General
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and the borough council, which had met in the town hall, was abolished under the
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to commemorate the lives of local service personnel who had died in the
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The Isle of Wight, with a Description of the Geology of the Island
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Municipal building in Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, England
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Yarmouth
50°42′21″N 1°29′58″W / 50.7059°N 1.4995°W / 50.7059; -1.4995
Neoclassical style
Listed Building
Yarmouth Town Hall, Isle of Wight is located in Isle of Wight
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight
listed building

borough
Middle Ages
medieval
burgesses
member of parliament
Lord Holmes
Governor of the Isle of Wight
neoclassical style
sash windows
Nikolaus Pevsner
UK Parliament
rotten borough
members of parliament
Reform Act 1832
Municipal Corporations Act 1883
Newport
First World War
J. E. B. Seely
Queen Elizabeth II
Duke of Edinburgh

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