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Holborn Town Hall and Library
Holborn Town Hall and Library in England London, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 2 h–3 h
About
Holborn Town Hall and Library is a cinema or movie theatre in England London, United Kingdom. Britain's listed cinemas span Edwardian picture palaces, Art Deco super-cinemas of the 1930s, and the surviving independent neighbourhood houses.
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From the Wikipedia article
Holborn Town hall is a municipal building on High Holborn, Holborn, London. It is a Grade II listed building.
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Background
History
The first town hall was a substantial structure on the corner of Gray's Inn Road and Clerkenwell Road which was commissioned by the Holborn District Board of Works on behalf of the Vestry of St Andrew Holborn Above Bars. It had been designed by Lewis Isaacs in an Italianate style, built by Brown & Robinson of Finsbury and completed in 1879. The design involved creating a new central wing and a new western wing, in a similar and symmetrical style to the existing eastern wing, based on the plans of Septimus Warwick and H. Austen Hall. A wrought-iron balcony bearing a borough coat of arms made by the Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts was installed in the middle of the central section on the…
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- Coordinates
- 51.5170, -0.1226
- Established
- 1894
- Official site
- www.museumofcomedy.com
Sources
- wikidata: Q27086332 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Holborn Town Hall (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Holborn Town Hall and Library?
- Holborn Town Hall and Library is in London, United Kingdom.
- When was Holborn Town Hall and Library built?
- Built or established in 1894.
- Who owns Holborn Town Hall and Library?
- Holborn Town Hall and Library is owned by | website=.