County Hall, Morpeth

County Hall, Morpeth
Statue of Viking warrior

County Hall in Morpeth is the meeting place of Northumberland County Council.

History

The old Northumberland County Hall was situated within an exclave of Northumberland (in the Moot Hall precincts) within the county borough of Newcastle upon Tyne from 1889 to 1974; the area became part of the county of Tyne and Wear in 1974 and was thus extraterritorial to the county of Northumberland.[1]

In the late 1970s Northumberland County Council decided that they wanted a meeting place within the territorial limits of the county. The building in Morpeth was therefore purpose-built as the meeting place of Northumberland County Council and completed in April 1981.[2]

The statue of a Viking Warrior that stands outside County Hall was sculpted by Margaret Wrightson in 1925 and placed in the grounds of Doxford Hall; it was relocated to Morpeth at that time of the construction of County Hall.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ "County Hall". British listed buildings. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  2. ↑ "Northumberland County Council to spend £17m on HQ revamp". Hexham Courant. 25 January 2018. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  3. ↑ "Bloody and brutal history celebrated with our cheerful little Viking statue". Morpeth Herald. 23 February 2014. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  4. ↑ "Viking Warrior". Public Monuments and Sculpture Association. Retrieved 29 April 2018.

Coordinates: 55°09′11″N 1°41′03″W / 55.15292°N 1.68403°W / 55.15292; -1.68403

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