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© Mr Gerald Rendle
IoE Number:
473550
Location:
DEVONPORT GUILDHALL AND ATTACHED WALLS, KER STREET
PLYMOUTH, PLYMOUTH, DEVON
Photographer:
Mr Gerald Rendle
Date Photographed:
06 February 2007
Date listed:
25 January 1954
Date of last amendment:
09 November 1998
Grade
I
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PLYMOUTH
SX4554 KER STREET, Devonport
740-1/54/151 Devonport Guildhall and attached
25/01/54 walls
(Formerly Listed as:
KER STREET, Devonport
Guildhall)
GV I
Guildhall. 1821-22 by John Foulston. Stucco. Rectangular plan
plus transepts towards rear; designed to resemble an ancient
Greek temple.
Single storey; tetrastyle Greek Doric portico with fluted
columns on stylobate; entablature with dentils and a stepped
parapet surmounted by Britannia. Within the portico are more
steps up to a central tapered doorway with eared architrave
and a moulded entablature; pair of 5-panel doors. Side walls
each with 5 windows and a pedimented transept. Windows nearest
front are blind, the others have late C19 paired round-arched
traceried lights.
INTERIOR: of main hall has plaster cornice decoration.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: stuccoed and coped courtyard walls at
either side are ramped up towards the front and with doorways
with pairs of panelled doors at the front end.
Part of an important group of civic structures by Foulston,
some of the most remarkable of their date in the country.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-:
675).