Pevsner and the Buildings of Stoke-on-Trent
 

Inner Burslem

"Now the town centre. It consists of Fountain Place, Market Place, Queen Street, Wedgwood Street, Chapel Bank, and Swan Square. The visitor will find it hard to work out which is which; they run into one another."

Public Buildings

"The public buildings are these........"


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Old Town Hall. 1852-7 by G. T. Robinson of Leamington.
 With giant pilasters and a portico to the w of clustered giant columns. Baroque top. Impressive entrance hall staircase.

on the Old Town Hall


The clock tower on the Old Town Hall is supported
by eight identical Atlas figures, two on each corner.

on the Atlas figures

Town Hall, Wedgwood Street. 1911 by Russell & Cooper of London.

Classical, with pairs of giant columns in antis.


Originally commissioned as a town hall, the foundation stone was laid by Alderman Malkin.
It was not completed until 1911, when it became a venue for theatres, concerts and other entertainment, then known as the Queen's Hall.
photo - Feb 2001

on The Queen's Hall

Wedgwood Memorial Institute, Queen Street. 1863 by R. Edgar and J. L. Kipling.
Brick with much terracotta Eleven bays, two storeys. Pointed windows, the upper ones blank and filled by reliefs of the Months of the Year (by M. H. Blanchard according to Gunnis, by Rowland Morris according to the VCH).


Wedgwood Memorial Institute, Queen Street , Burslem
photo - Jan 2006

on The Wedgwood Institute

School of Art, Queen Street. 1905-7 by A. R. Wood.
Brick and yellow terracotta. Symmetrical, of three bays. Large upper studio windows.


It is a rectangular, two storey building, six rooms rooms wide by two rooms deep.
photo - 2002

on The School of Art

Burslem Sunday School, Westport Road, n of Fountain Place.

Built as the Hilltop Methodist Church in 1836-7 by Samuel Parch. Very monumental for a chapel of of that date. Five bays, upper ground level and gallery level. On the upper ground level eight Tuscan columns. Top pediment.


Hill Top Chapel, Burslem

This impressive building was built in 1836 on the corner of Westport Road and Hall Street.
Closed in January 1977, a fire caused widespread damage in 1983. Beyond repair the main body was
demolished in 1987 but the dramatic front portico remains (and is a listed building)

on Hill Top Sunday School


front portico of the Sunday School
photo - Oct 1999




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