Municipal Offices in the Promenade
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Municipal Offices in the Promenade
Image: © David Stowell Taken: 1 Dec 2006
Cheltenham's Municipal offices in the Promenade are amongst the finest Regency buildings in the town. They were built in 1823 and were originally private houses having a unified and integrated classical design. The Town coat of arms can be seen on the pediment with its pigeons (the original source of the spa water was reputedly discovered when Thomas Skillicorn noticed pigeons seemed to like a particular spring) and book (added, along with the word "eruditio" - education, at the behest of Dorothea Beale, the prominent principal of Cheltenham Ladies college from 1858 to 1906).
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Image Location
Latitude
51.899219
Longitude
-2.078434