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Description: | April 1965. This chair is standing on a plinth in a corner of the main corridor connecting the Mayoral Suite of Rooms on the First Floor of Morley Town Hall. The notice on it says "Chair of Justice" and goes on to explain that it is of Jacobean origin and was used by Watson Scatcherd, a local J.P., to deliver his judgements when presiding at the local court at the Nelson Arms, sometime between 1800, when the inn was built, and 1817 when he ceased being a magistrate. After this the chair must have been kept at Morley House and it was presented to the Town Hall either in 1902 when Mr. R. Borrough Hopkins retired from the position of Morley's Town Clerk (though he retained that of Clerk to the Magistrates' Court) or in 1935 when much material was left to the town in his will.
In the 1990s when the Council Chamber was being used as a second magistrates' court in Morley Town Hall, the Chair of Justice was frequently vandalised by people wielding penknives and so it is now kept locked up in the Mayor's Parlour. Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Chair of Justice Morley Town Hall | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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