Gateshead Town Hall
Introduction
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Gateshead Town Hall
Image: © Stephen Craven Taken: 4 Dec 2021
The building on West Street dates from 1870, architect John Johnstone, and is grade II listed (list entry 1277845), being (according to a local business directory) 'the only surviving purpose-built Victorian town hall in Tyne and Wear and one of only five comparable town halls in the North East'. The 2017 conservation area statement available online described it as 'a single building originally designed to contain a council suite, municipal offices, police station, magistrates court, law offices and what was probably a police house, public halls, refreshment rooms and hall keeper’s house'. According to Image it ceased to have its civic function in 1978 and is currently used as an arts venue.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.964225
Longitude
-1.6042