The Yelde Hall | |
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![]() The Yelde Hall | |
Location | Market Place, Chippenham |
Coordinates | 51°27′29″N 2°06′50″W / 51.45804°N 2.11387°W |
Built | 1450 |
Architectural style(s) | Medieval style |
Listed Building – Grade I | |
Official name | The Yelde Hall and the Council Chamber |
Designated | 25 April 1950 |
Reference no. | 1267996 |
The Yelde Hall is a public facility in the Market Place, in Chippenham, Wiltshire, England. The building, which was the meeting place of Chippenham Borough Council, is a Grade I listed building. [1]
The hall was built in around 1450. [2] The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage facing onto the Market Place with the right hand section projected forward; the right hand section, which consisted of two bays, featured a short flight of steps leading up to a doorway in the left bay with a horizontal window above the doorway and two small gables above that. [1] The left hand gable contained a carving of the town arms with the inscription "JS 1776": the initials refer to John Scott who was the bailiff at that time. [2] The right hand gable at one time contained a clock which was taken down in 1851. [2]
The building was originally used as a jail (in the cellar), [3] as a courtroom (on the ground floor) and as a council chamber (upstairs). [1] The Chippenham Savings Bank operated an office in the building on Saturday mornings from 1822. [2]
Following the relocation of the town council and burgess to Chippenham Town Hall in 1834, [4] [5] the building became the drill hall for the Chippenham Volunteer Rifle Corps in 1846. [2] The unit evolved to become B Company, 2nd Volunteer Battalion, The Wiltshire Regiment in 1881 and B Company, 4th Battalion, the Duke of Edinburgh's Wiltshire Regiment in 1908. [6] [7] The regiment vacated the building when it relocated to the Little Ivy in 1911. [2] However, the building was also used as the headquarters of the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry at this time, [6] [8] and continued to be a yeomanry drill hall until the yeomanry moved its headquarters to Trowbridge in 1920. [8]
The Fire Brigade used the east end of the building from 1870 and then almost the whole building from 1911 to 1945. [2] After some restoration work in the 1950s, the building served as the Chippenham Museum from October 1963 until it relocated to the Market Place in 1999. [2]
Following a refurbishment, the building then became the North Wiltshire Tourist Information Centre in March 2003 [9] although that concern relocated to a unit adjacent to the town hall in February 2012. [10] It underwent a further refurbishment in March 2012 and then re-opened to the public as an extension of the Chippenham Museum and Heritage Centre in April 2012. [11]
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The Yelde Hall | |
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![]() The Yelde Hall | |
Location | Market Place, Chippenham |
Coordinates | 51°27′29″N 2°06′50″W / 51.45804°N 2.11387°W |
Built | 1450 |
Architectural style(s) | Medieval style |
Listed Building – Grade I | |
Official name | The Yelde Hall and the Council Chamber |
Designated | 25 April 1950 |
Reference no. | 1267996 |
The Yelde Hall is a public facility in the Market Place, in Chippenham, Wiltshire, England. The building, which was the meeting place of Chippenham Borough Council, is a Grade I listed building. [1]
The hall was built in around 1450. [2] The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage facing onto the Market Place with the right hand section projected forward; the right hand section, which consisted of two bays, featured a short flight of steps leading up to a doorway in the left bay with a horizontal window above the doorway and two small gables above that. [1] The left hand gable contained a carving of the town arms with the inscription "JS 1776": the initials refer to John Scott who was the bailiff at that time. [2] The right hand gable at one time contained a clock which was taken down in 1851. [2]
The building was originally used as a jail (in the cellar), [3] as a courtroom (on the ground floor) and as a council chamber (upstairs). [1] The Chippenham Savings Bank operated an office in the building on Saturday mornings from 1822. [2]
Following the relocation of the town council and burgess to Chippenham Town Hall in 1834, [4] [5] the building became the drill hall for the Chippenham Volunteer Rifle Corps in 1846. [2] The unit evolved to become B Company, 2nd Volunteer Battalion, The Wiltshire Regiment in 1881 and B Company, 4th Battalion, the Duke of Edinburgh's Wiltshire Regiment in 1908. [6] [7] The regiment vacated the building when it relocated to the Little Ivy in 1911. [2] However, the building was also used as the headquarters of the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry at this time, [6] [8] and continued to be a yeomanry drill hall until the yeomanry moved its headquarters to Trowbridge in 1920. [8]
The Fire Brigade used the east end of the building from 1870 and then almost the whole building from 1911 to 1945. [2] After some restoration work in the 1950s, the building served as the Chippenham Museum from October 1963 until it relocated to the Market Place in 1999. [2]
Following a refurbishment, the building then became the North Wiltshire Tourist Information Centre in March 2003 [9] although that concern relocated to a unit adjacent to the town hall in February 2012. [10] It underwent a further refurbishment in March 2012 and then re-opened to the public as an extension of the Chippenham Museum and Heritage Centre in April 2012. [11]
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