Southport Town Hall, built 1852–53 in Palladian style, east side of Lord Street, Southport, Sefton, Merseyside, England, UK,
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Tony Smith / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
2JHW8BBFile size:
56 MB (2 MB Compressed download)Releases:
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5362 x 3649 px | 45.4 x 30.9 cm | 17.9 x 12.2 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
10 July 2022Location:
Lord St, Southport , England, UK, PR8 1DAMore information:
Southport Town Hall has a stuccoed façade painted white, and a slate roof in Palladian style. It has a rectangular plan plus extensions to the rear. The hall is in two storeys with a basement, and it has a symmetrical front of seven bays. Between some of the bays are paired pilasters, giving a window arrangement of 1:2:1:2:1. The basement and ground floor are rusticated. Between the floors are a frieze and a cornice, the upper cornice being dentillated. In the centre of the building is a double parallel staircase with a balustraded parapet. This leads to a porch flanked by a pair of pilasters and a fluted Doric column on each side. On top of the porch is a triglyph frieze, a cornice, and a balustraded parapet. Above the porch is a balcony with a window flanked by Ionic semi-columns and paired pilasters. The windows in the basement are short and rectangular, those in the ground floor are tall and round-headed with keystones and voussoirs, and in the upper floor they are tall and flat-headed with architraves. All the windows contain sashes. Above the central bay is a pediment with a tympanum containing carved personifications of Justice, Mercy and Truth, and this is flanked by balustraded parapets. The original interiors are no longer present