Cloth Market, town hall and corn exchange
Cloth Market, town hall and corn exchange
HER Number
6982
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Cloth Market, town hall and corn exchange
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Civil
Site Type: Broad
Meeting Hall
Site Type: Specific
Town Hall
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
John Green designed the corn exchange which was built on the site of Middle Street on 30 October 1839. In 1858 Johnston erected the town hall above it. Demolished 1973. Site now occupied by Stanegate House.
Easting
424910
Northing
564070
Grid Reference
NZ424910564070
Sources
Plan of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1945; L. Wilkes and G. Dodds, 1964, Tyneside Classical - The Newcastle of Grainger, Dobson and Clayton; Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 127-9; Brenda Whitelock, 1992, Timepieces of Newcastle, p. 47; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 20 and 139; Malcolm L Scaife, 1974, Newcastle Old and New; M and MW Lambert, engravers, 1855, Plan of the proposed buildings in St. Nicholas Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, Supplement to "The Newcastle Chronicle", February 9th, 1855, Newcastle Libraries C2 672690 00 E5 / L912.2 N536, https://www.flickr.com/photos/newcastlelibraries/26167958791/in/album-72157666225808630/