Town Hall (Renfrew)
The Town Hall of Renfrew is north of the Scottish city of Renfrew in the Council Area Renfrewshire . In 1994 the structure was included in the Scottish List of Monuments in the highest monument category A. It replaces a smaller previous building from 1670 that was a little further north. There were smaller outbuildings at the location of today's town hall.
description
The building is on Hairst Street ( A741 ) opposite the junction with High Street ( A877 ). It was built between 1871 and 1873. The architect James Jamieson Lamb was commissioned with the planning and designed a building in the Victorian style , which takes up numerous motifs of the neo-Gothic . After a fire in 1877, the town hall had to be renovated.
The masonry of the two-storey building consists of rubble from sandstone and is clad with ashlar. A six-story, 32 m high tower rises up on the northeast edge. In the tympanum above the two-winged, wooden entrance door there is a simple tracery to be found; above it is the coat of arms of Burgh Renfrew. There is a slim twin lancet window on the first floor . A frieze runs between the first and second as well as the second and third floors. In the third tower clocks are installed on all sides. Crowd watchtowers with conical roofs rise from the edges . They are decorated with blind quatrains . The tower closes with a pointed helmet with an octagonal floor plan and a weather vane . Lukarnen are built into the wooden structure .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ Entry on Renfrew Town Hall in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
- ^ Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
Web links
- Entry on Renfrew Town Hall in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database
Coordinates: 55 ° 52 ′ 44.3 " N , 4 ° 23 ′ 14" W.