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125: 31: 183:, built in red and buff bricks at a cost of £1,423 and was officially opened on 31 March 1864. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with three bays facing the south edge of the Market Place; the central bay featured a wide arched opening on the ground floor and three tall round headed windows on the first floor. The windows on the first floor were framed by a brick arch and surmounted by a gable containing an 132: 226:
The company which had developed the building, the "Easingwold Public Hall Company", got into financial difficulties and was wound up in 1892 and, in an attempt to diversify community use of the building, a minute rifle range was established on the ground floor in the early 20th century. The building
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on the first floor. The side elevations were fenestrated in a similar style and stretched back eight bays. Internally, the principal rooms were a large market hall on the ground floor and an assembly hall and a committee room on the first floor. The architectural historian,
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In the mid-19th century, a group of local businessmen decided to form a company to raise funds for the erection of an events venue in the town: the site they selected was occupied by a
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The town hall was acquired by a printing business, G. H. Smith & Son, in the late 1950s, and converted for use as a commercial printing centre: print production of
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The public hall opened on 31 March 1864, with free beer and a large crowd, including the Easingwold Staghounds.
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was installed on the roof in 1869. A meeting to secure support from local people for the proposed
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in October 1887: the project subsequently got underway was completed in July 1891.
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then operated as a cinema for much of the first half of the 20th century.
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Municipal building in Easingwold, North Yorkshire, England
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took place in the town hall under the chairmanship of
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The new building was designed by Edward Taylor in the
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The History of Easingwold and the Forest of Galtres
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Easingwold
54°07′18″N 1°11′32″W / 54.1216°N 1.1923°W / 54.1216; -1.1923
Victorian style
Easingwold Town Hall is located in North Yorkshire
Easingwold
North Yorkshire
shambles
Victorian style
oculus
sash windows
Nikolaus Pevsner
petty session
court leet
clock tower
spire
Easingwold Railway
Sir George Wombwell
"Tiny railways, scouts and cappuccino. Easingwold has it all"
"'Parishes: Easingwold', in A History of the County of York North Riding"


"History of Easingwold"
The History of Easingwold and the Forest of Galtres
ISBN
978-0904775181


"Town Hall, Easingwold, by Edward Taylor (1831-1908)"
Yorkshire, The North Riding (Buildings of England Series)

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