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Description: | The Town Hall building has had several titles and uses since it was built including Portland Chambers and Portland Hall. The eastern part of the building which has 5 Ionic columns was built in 1835-6 as the Literary and Philosophical Society, probably to the design of either Jacob Owen, his son Thomas Owen or both. In about 1860 the building was enlarged as the Town Hall and the façade nearly doubled, to the original design so that it had 9 Ionic columns on the first floor. After being known as the Corn Exchange for many years, it became a bank and offices.
Reference;
1. Lloyd, David W. 1974. Buildings of Portsmouth and its environs, p. 109.
Copy photograph of a photograph. | 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: | Literary and Philosophical Society Thomas Owen building Portland Chambers church Corn Exchange street Town Hall Portland Street Portland Hall Jacob Owen bicycle West Street United Reformed Church transport horse and buggy | Temporal: | start=1890-01-01; end=1910-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Copied by: Dine, Derek; Hampshire County Library; | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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