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Sheffield Town Hall is a municipal building on Pinstone Street in the City of Sheffield, England. The building is used by Sheffield City Council , and also contains a publicly displayed collection of silverware .
The early "Sheffield Towne Hall" was replaced by a second building, which had been designed by William Renny in 1699 and opened in 1700. [nb 1] The second town hall was next to the parish church, on a site with little space for extension. [4] The third town hall, now referred to as the "Old Town Hall", was designed by Charles Watson in the ...
The history of Sheffield, a city in South Yorkshire, ... while the old Town Hall and the present Cutlers' Hall were among the major works of the 19th century.
The Oval Hall is the largest hall in the building, seating 2,271 people. [7] The Grand Willis III Organ is the largest in Sheffield with over 4,037 pipes, 75 stops and four manuals. [8] [9] The organ sits in a chamber situated behind the large decorative grilles facing the audience. In addition to the Oval Hall, facilities include the Memorial ...
This timeline of Sheffield history summarises key events in the history of Sheffield, a city in England. The origins of the city can be traced back to the founding of a settlement in a clearing beside the River Sheaf in the second half of the 1st millennium AD. The area had seen human occupation since at least the last ice age, but significant growth in the settlements that are now ...
This is a list of listed buildings in Sheffield City Centre, covering the S1 postcode district in the City of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. The district contains 137 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, two are listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, 12 are at Grade II*, the ...
Sheffield City Centre (referred to locally as simply Town) is a district of the City of Sheffield and is covered partly by the City ward of the City of Sheffield.It includes the area that is within a radius of roughly 0.75 miles (1.2 km) of Sheffield Cathedral and is encircled by the Inner Ring Road, a circular route started in the late 1960s and completed in 2007.
High Street was the site of the original Sheffield Town Hall, which was situated by the church gates; it was a modest building which was replaced by a more impressive structure in 1808 on Waingate. For many years High Street remained no wider than it had been in the Middle Ages; it was too narrow for horse trams to pass through.