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31: 158: 165: 224:, was completed in 1735. The old tolbooth was demolished in 1744 to allow the new building to be extended. The design for the new building involved a symmetrical main frontage with five bays facing the market square; the left hand bay featured a round headed doorway flanked by engaged 259:
to connect the borough with the more central parts of the country. The lock-up became redundant after a police station, complete with cells, was completed in West Row in 1851. The building was refurbished in the 1880s and the piazza was covered over with an iron canopy in 1890.
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Stockton-on-Tees Municipal Borough Council acquired the building from the Bishops of Durham in 1939 in order to secure continued access to their meeting place and then hosted a visit by
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in the building to accommodate prisoners, as well as a meeting room on the first floor and adjoining accommodation to allow visitors to stay. The building was owned by the
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The first structure on the site, traditionally referred to a town house, was completed in around 1100 and rebuilt in the late 15th century. A purpose-built
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and the north elevation featured a doorway in the central bay and five round headed casement windows on the first floor. At roof level there was a short
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was erected just south of the original building in the late 17th century: it was arcaded on the ground floor to allow markets to be held and there was a
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At a meeting in the town hall in 1810, the recorder of Stockton, Leonard Raisbeck, used the opportunity to advocate the need for a
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was created to the north of the building and a market cross designed by John Shout was erected there in 1768.
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columns supporting a small balcony; the hour-striking clock currently in place in the turret was installed by
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was formed in 1974. An extensive programme of refurbishment works was completed in 2011.
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was formed in 1967: however, its main role as a civic meeting place was restored when
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who collected rents from use of the market stalls and the rooms above.
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Picture Stockton Archive: a Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
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Municipal building in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England
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placed above the doorway. The side elevations displayed
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Stockton-on-Tees
54°33′51″N 1°18′46″W / 54.5641°N 1.3129°W / 54.5641; -1.3129
Neo-Georgian style
Listed Building
Stockton-on-Tees Town Hall is located in County Durham
Stockton-on-Tees
County Durham
Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council
tolbooth
lock up
Bishops of Durham
Georgian style
Doric order
coat of arms
Venetian windows
clock tower
Ionic order
Thwaites & Reed
piazza
railway
Queen Elizabeth II
Duke of Edinburgh
County Borough of Teesside
Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council




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