Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Market Hall, Kendal


	Market Hall, Kendal
	Kendal Market Hall
Street:-	Market Place
locality:-	Kendal
civil parish:-	Kendal (formerly Westmorland)
county:-	Cumbria
locality type:-	market hall
locality type:-	market
coordinates:-	SD51579280
1Km square:-	SD5192
10Km square:-	SD59

	BRY97.jpg (taken 19.1.2010) BRY99.jpg "PUBLIC MARKET" (taken 19.1.2010)
	Built 1887 to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of Queen Victoria.

evidence:-	database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Market Hall
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "MARKET HALL / / MARKET PLACE / KENDAL / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75444 / SD5156992810"
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "Market Hall, incorporating entrance to no 16. Built 1887 by public subscription to commemorate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. Hammer-dressed rubble with quoins; ground floor coursed, upper floors snecked. Cornice between ground and 1st floors, string between 1st and 2nd floors, and interrupted string below eaves band. Moulded cast-iron gutter has lion's head near right-hand end. Graduated slate roof. 3 storeys, 3 bays. Rusticated pier and responds to left with wrought-iron double gates between; weathered inscription (partly renewed), with central cartouche, to each lintel. Entrance to no 16 on right: Panelled door and semicircular fanlight in surround with projecting keystone. Sashes in architraves: Tall to 1st floor, with segmentally-pedimented frames containing shields to either side of central window; cast-iron balconies on stone brackets to 2nd floor with inscription in large, cast-iron letters, PUBLIC MARKET, split to either side of central window."

	BRZ01.jpg The market hall. (taken 19.1.2010) BRZ02.jpg Part of the attached shopping centre. (taken 19.1.2010) BRY98.jpg Old and new signs:- "VICTORIA REIN[ ] QUINQUENNIA [ ]EM" "Westmorland shopping centre" (taken 19.1.2010) BLU72.jpg (taken 9.4.2006)

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