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Description: | Now at the Weald and Downland Museum.
The market hall was built in the Square at Titchfield in about 1612 at the expense of the Third Earl of Southampton where it stood for about three hundred years. It consisted of a ground floor with an open arcade within which market traders could lay out goods sheltered from the weather and an upper floor with a meeting room and a small open gallery from which the Town Crier could read out notices. It was constructed from a timber framework filled with close stud timber and herringbone brickwork. Such timber halls were once quite common in English towns but have rarely survived. It was possibly moved about 1810 when the Turnpike Trust repaired the highway to the position in Barry's Yard, behind the Queen's Head. Various changes were made to the hall over the years including a cell or lock-up being built into the lower floor in about 1830 and it was also used for keeping pigs. By the time of its removal to the Weald and Downland Museum it was little more than a derelict shed covered in ivy.
References:
1. Dale, Anne. 1962. Historical sketches of Fareham District, p. 11-12.
2. Emery, John 1985. Fareham in old picture postcards, p.131.
3. Titchfield History Society. 1982. Titchfield A History, p.53-54. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Hampshire Library and Information Service - Hampshire County Council | Subjects: | Earl of Southampton building market hall Town Crier cell street The Square goods Weald and Downland Museum Bugle Turnpike Trust Queens Head Barry's Yard public house lock- up market trader meeting room | Temporal: | start=1992-01-01; end=1992-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Dianne Hatfield, Hampshire County Library | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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