Guild Hall (Bath)

 guildhall, 1770s construction, Grade I Listed (UK)

Town Hall, with Municipal Offices, Council Chamber, Mayor's Parlour etc. Originally Guildhall (post 1778), and then Guildhall with Technical Schools to left and Municipal Offices to right (post 1893). 1775-1778, 1893-1897. By Thomas Baldwin (1775), and John McKean Brydon (1893), sculpture by GA Lawson. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar to all elevations, with much carving and rustication.
HISTORY: An outstanding civic ensemble, combining one of the best mid Georgian town halls with an outstanding late Victorian town hall addition, conceived on an imperial scale and showing Bath¿s prosperity and confidence at the end of the C19. As the plaque on the south side of Brydon's extension states, `These municipal buildings were rendered necessary by the large increase of public business since the erection of the central building'. The story of Baldwin designing the Guildhall when working for the City Architect, Thomas Warr Atwood, and then replacing him on the latter's death, is told in Ison and Root.
Central Offices for the council and mayor. Principal rooms can be hired out for receptions.
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