Chelsea Town Hall

Chelsea Town Hall is a municipal building in King's Road, Chelsea, London. The oldest part is a Grade II* listed building[1] and the later part is Grade II listed.[2]

Chelsea Town Hall
Chelsea Town Hall
LocationKing's Road, Chelsea
Coordinates51.4874°N 0.1682°W / 51.4874; -0.1682
Built1887
ArchitectJohn McKean Brydon
Architectural style(s)Neoclassical style
Listed Building – Grade II*
Official name: Old Vestry Hall
Designated15 April 1969
Reference no.1294164
Listed Building – Grade II
Official name: Chelsea Town Hall
Designated15 April 1969
Reference no.1224630
Shown in Kensington and Chelsea
Chelsea Town Hall (Greater London)
Chelsea Town Hall (England)

History

The building was commissioned to replace a mid-19th-century vestry hall on King's Road, which had been designed by William Willmer Pocock in the Italianate style and which had become inadequate for the council's needs.[3] It was demolished in the early 20th century, having been found to be structurally unsound, to make way for the later part of the current structure.[3]

The oldest part of the current complex is the vestry hall in Chelsea Manor Gardens, which was designed by John McKean Brydon in the Neoclassical style and completed in January 1887.[1] It became the headquarters of the Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea on its formation in 1900.[4]

The building was extended north-west to the designs of Leonard Stokes in the Neoclassical style to create a large frontage on King's Road in 1907.[2] It ceased to be the local seat of government when the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea was formed in 1965[5] and instead became the Chelsea branch library in 1978.[4]

References
  1. Historic England. "Old Vestry Hall (part of Chelsea Town Hall) (1294164)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  2. Historic England. "Chelsea Town Hall (1224630)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  3. "London's Town Halls". Historic England. p. 130. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  4. Croot, Patricia E C (2004). "'Local government: Local government from 1837', in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 12, Chelsea,". London: British History Online. pp. 210–217. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
  5. "Local Government Act 1963". Legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
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