St Helens Town Hall , Victoria Square, Bickerstaffe St, St Helens, Merseyside, England, UK, WA10 1HP
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Victoria Square, Bickerstaffe St, St Helens, Merseyside, England, UK, WA10 1HPMore information:
St Helens Town Hall is a municipal building in Bickerstaffe Street in St Helens, Merseyside, England. Although the town hall itself, which is the headquarters of St Helens Council, is not a listed building, there are two telephone kiosks flanking the entrance which are listed The first town hall, which was designed in the Italianate style and featured a large hexastyle portico with piers on the ground floor supporting Corinthian order columns on the first floor, was completed in 1839.[2] It contained a large assembly hall for holding "courts, concerts, balls, and public meetings" as well as a lock up for holding prisoners.[3] The town hall became the headquarters of the new municipal borough of St Helens on 2 February 1868 but, after the first town hall was badly damaged in a fire in 1871, civic leaders decided to procure a new town hall on the same site. The new town hall, which was designed in the Victorian style, was completed in 1876. The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage of twenty bays facing Bickerstaffe Street; the central section of five bays featured a flight of steps leading up to a double-height stone portico with piers on the ground floor supporting paired Corinthian order columns on the first floor and an arch with a pediment above. There was a clock tower on the left of the central section with a steeple. Internally the main rooms were an assembly hall, which had a proscenium arch, the council chamber, which was panelled, and the members' room. Stained glass windows on the main staircase depicted St Helena holding a shield which bore the coat of arms of the town The town hall continued serve as the headquarters of the county borough of St Helens and became the local seat of government of the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens in 1974. Queen Elizabeth II visited the town hall and inspected a guard of honour in front of the town hall on 21 June 1977