Theatres · South East England
Worthing Town Hall including Assembly Hall and Worthing Room
Worthing Town Hall including Assembly Hall and Worthing Room — Grade II listed building-listed theatre in england-south-east, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 2 h–3 h
- Wheelchair accessible
About
Worthing Town Hall including Assembly Hall and Worthing Room is a Grade II listed building-listed theatre in england-south-east, United Kingdom, registered on the National Heritage List for England (NHLE entry 1250786). Listed status protects buildings and structures of special architectural or historic interest. See the linked Wikipedia article for further details.
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Heritage listing
Worthing Town Hall, or New Town Hall, is a municipal building in Chapel Road, Worthing, West Sussex, England. The town hall, which is a meeting place of Worthing Borough Council, is a Grade II listed building. Located at Chapel Road in the centre of Worthing, it was opened in 1933 and built in a neo-Georgian style to designs by Charles Cowles-Voysey. Containing offices and a Council chamber it replaced Worthing's Old Town Hall as the administrative centre, a building that had been the home of Worthing's local authority from 1835 and was demolished in 1966. To the rear and west lies the Assembly Hall, built in 1935, also to designs by Cowles-Voysey.
From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
Worthing Town Hall, or New Town Hall, is a municipal building in Chapel Road, Worthing, West Sussex, England. The town hall, which is a meeting place of Worthing Borough Council, is a Grade II listed building. Located at Chapel Road in the centre of Worthing, it was opened in 1933 and built in a neo-Georgian style to designs by Charles Cowles-Voysey. Containing offices and a Council chamber it replaced Worthing's Old Town Hall as the administrative centre, a building that had been the home of Worthing's local authority from 1835 and was demolished in 1966. To the rear and west lies the Assembly Hall, built in 1935, also to designs by Cowles-Voysey. To the south lies the Worthing Museum and Art Gallery, originally built as a Carnegie Library.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
Background
History
The town commissioners in Worthing originally met at the Nelson Inn on South Street and later at the Royal Oak Public House in Market Street. In the 1820s the commissioners decided to procure a dedicated town hall: the site they selected at the north end of South Street was a garden owned by Sir Timothy Shelley, former Whig MP for Horsham and New Shoreham and the father of the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. The first purpose-built town hall, which was designed in the neoclassical style with a tetrastyle portico and a clock tower was completed in June 1835. The town hall also acted as a courthouse for hearing quarter sessions and assizes. The war memorial at the site, which takes the…
Architecture
The carpet in the council chamber is by Maufe of Heal's. The entrance hall floor is by Gilbert Bayes. In the mayor's parlour is a map of Worthing by MacDonald Gill. It depicts Worthing in 1933, when there was no development in Findon Valley or West Durrington, and very little at Goring-by-Sea. Instead there were many glasshouses across the borough that grew a variety of produce including figs, tomatoes, grapes, cucumbers, mushrooms and chrysanthemums.
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 50.8147, -0.3722
- County
- West Sussex
- District
- Worthing
- Parish
- Worthing, unparished area
- Postcode
- BN11 1HE
- Parliamentary constituency
- Worthing West
- Established
- 1931
Sources
- wikidata: Q26542812 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Worthing Town Hall (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Worthing Town Hall including Assembly Hall and Worthing Room?
- Worthing Town Hall including Assembly Hall and Worthing Room is in West Sussex, South-East England, United Kingdom (postcode BN11 1HE), in the parish of Worthing, unparished area.
- When was Worthing Town Hall including Assembly Hall and Worthing Room built?
- Built or established in 1931.
- Is Worthing Town Hall including Assembly Hall and Worthing Room a listed building?
- Worthing Town Hall including Assembly Hall and Worthing Room is officially recognised as Grade II listed building listed.
- How do I get to Worthing Town Hall including Assembly Hall and Worthing Room?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode BN11 1HE. It sits within the Worthing West parliamentary constituency.