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St. Catherines Road, GRANTHAM, NG31 0SB

Built in 1870 to the design of James Tait with Early English style tracery to the windows. The building includes a Sunday School to the left. Now occupied by the Alive Church, and evangelical group. The United Reformed congregation has moved to the Methodist church on Firkin Street.

Detail of the Guildhall http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3849483 clock tower, with the four-sided clock, which when first built, allowed many Grantham residents to accurately tell the time. As the Guildhall also housed the Sessions House, it is the origin of the local saying "under the clock", meaning to appear in court.

Tucked in at the side of the Guildhall, and probably of slightly later date as the brickwork is slightly different. Listed Grade II. See http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5286770 for the blue plaque.

Now an arts centre, The Grantham Guildhall and Sessions Hall, on St Peter's Hill, is a Grade II Listed Building (English Heritage ID:193008 http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-193008-the-guildhall-and-sessions-hall-lincolns British Listed Buildings) dating from 1867-9. Notable features include its high-pitched slate roof in modified French style and the tall clock lantern with wrought iron coronet.

Designed by James Tait 1869-70.

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Guildhall and jail Grade II Listed built 1867-9 and designed by Lincoln architect William Watkins commissioned in 1866 by Mayor Thomas Winter after criminal Jesse Dale twice walked out of the town’s original jail in 1864. On the site was an old school, The Firs, housed in a former town house. This and the adjoining land were bought for £2,100.00. At the height of World War I, the jail in the Guildhall was resurrected and the first female officer to have full powers of arrest, Edith Smith, joined the Grantham force and was based there. As late as 1930, publican Frank Milner of the Victoria Hotel, Commercial Road, was let off with a caution for serving out of hours because he set his time by the clock which was, and still is, a little slow. In 1972, a dome replaced the original wrought ironwork over the clock tower and in 1974, the magistrates moved to the London Road. Much of the building was redundant until 1991 when it was redesigned by Sleaford architect Tim Benton and re-opened as the council owned Guildhall Arts Centre at a cost of £1.2 million. In 2010 a refurbishment, saw the box office move to the front of the building and the Victorian entrance being used once more, a new coffee shop was housed in the jail where the kitchen area is still referred to as ‘the back cell’.

This bronze statue dating from 1858 is sited on the High Street in front of the Victorian gothic Guildhall. Isaac Newton lived nearby in Woolsthorpe Manor Image and attended the King's School in Grantham.