Bishop Auckland Town Hall
- Bishop Auckland Town Hall
Bishop Auckland Town Hall is a Grade II* listed building[cite web |title= Bishop Auckland Town Hall|url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=385723|publisher=Images of England |accessdate=2008-08-27] located in the town of Bishop Auckland, Co Durham, England. ]The building was completed in 1862 and is a "Gothic style" Victorian Building overlooking the town's market place. The town hall was designed by John Philpott Jones for Bishop Auckland Town Hall and Market Company Ltd. The money to build it was raised privately by the issue of shares in the company. It was then bought by the local board of health in 1888, which went on to become Bishop Auckland Urban District council in 1894.
It was abandoned and then condemned for demolition in the eighties, however after a local campaign to save the building, it was fully restored in the early nineties. [cite book
last = Hutchinson
first = Tom
title = The History of Bishop Auckland
publisher = The People's History
date = 2005
location = Seaham
isbn = 1-902527-59-3
pages =121-122]
The building now houses Bishop Auckland's main public library, a theatre, an art gallery, tourist information centre and a café-bar. [Citation
title = Walking and Cycling Routes in Wear Valley
publisher = Wear Valley District Council
url = http://www.wearvalley.gov.uk/media/pdf/3/k/WalkingCycling07_1.pdf
accessdate = 2008-08-30]
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External links
* [http://www.bishopaucklandtownhall.org.uk/ Bishop Auckland Town Hall]
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