Old Town Hall, Kensington

The old Town Hall was a municipal facility at Kensington High Street in Kensington, West London. It was demolished in 1982.

Old Town Hall, Kensington
Old Town Hall, Kensington
LocationKensington
Coordinates51.5016°N 0.1923°W / 51.5016; -0.1923
AreaItalianate style
Built1880
Demolished1982
ArchitectRobert Walker
Shown in Kensington and Chelsea

History
The original vestry hall in Kensington High Street

The building was commissioned to replace a mid-19th-century vestry hall in Kensington High Street, which had been designed by Benjamin Broadbridge in the Tudor style and which had become inadequate for the council's needs.[1]

The new building, which was designed by Robert Walker in the Italianate style, was built by Braid and Co. on an adjacent site just to the east of the old building and was completed in 1880.[1] It went on to become the headquarters of the Royal Borough of Kensington when the area secured Royal borough status in 1901.[2] It was extended to a design by William Weaver, the surveyor to the vestry, and William Hunt in 1899.[1]

Following the creation of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in 1965,[3] the council chose to build modern facilities at the new Kensington Town Hall in Hornton Street.[4]

The old town hall was demolished "in controversial circumstances" involving an impending conservation order in June 1982.[5]

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References
  1. "London's Town Halls". Historic England. p. 136. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  2. "No. 27378". The London Gazette. 19 November 1901. p. 7472.
  3. "Local Government Act 1963". Legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  4. Walker, David. "Kensington and Chelsea Town Hall". c20society. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  5. "Kensington Town Hall on the High Street, 1905". www.rbkc.gov.uk.
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