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List Of City And Town Halls In Scotland
This is a list of city chambers and town halls in Scotland. The list is sortable by building age and height and provides a link to the listing description where relevant. See also * List of city and town halls References {{reflist Scotland ...
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City And Town Halls
In local government, a city hall, town hall, civic centre (in the UK or Australia), guildhall, or a municipal building (in the Philippines), is the chief administrative building of a city, town, or other municipality. It usually houses the city or town council, its associated departments, and their employees. It also usually functions as the base of the mayor of a city, town, borough, county or shire, and of the executive arm of the municipality (if one exists distinctly from the council). By convention, until the middle of the 19th century, a single large open chamber (or "hall") formed an integral part of the building housing the council. The hall may be used for council meetings and other significant events. This large chamber, the "town hall" (and its later variant "city hall") has become synonymous with the whole building, and with the administrative body housed in it. The terms "council chambers", "municipal building" or variants may be used locally in preferenc ...
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Airdrie Town House
Airdie Town House is a municipal building in Bank Street, Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The town house, which was the headquarters of Airdrie Burgh Council, is a Category B listed building. History In the early 19th century the burgh leaders met in the masonic hall, a building in the High Street, which had opened on 11 May 1810. The masonic lodge had over-extended itself with the borrowings needed to build the hall and was keen to maximise use of the building. After the area became of burgh of barony in 1821, the burgh leaders decided to commission a dedicated municipal building for the town. The new town house was designed by Alexander Baird in the Neoclassical architecture, neoclassical style, built in ashlar stone and completed in December 1826. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with three bays facing onto Bank Street; the centre bay, which was slightly projected forward, featured a doorway on the ground floor flanked by two pairs of Tuscan order colum ...
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Annan, Dumfries And Galloway
Annan ( ; gd, Inbhir Anainn) is a town and former royal burgh in Dumfries and Galloway, south-west Scotland. Historically part of Dumfriesshire, its public buildings include Annan Academy, of which the writer Thomas Carlyle was a pupil, and a Georgian building now known as "Bridge House". Annan also features a Historic Resources Centre. In Port Street, some of the windows remain blocked up to avoid paying the window tax. Each year on the first Saturday in July, Annan celebrates the Royal Charter and the boundaries of the Royal Burgh are confirmed when a mounted cavalcade undertakes the Riding of the Marches. Entertainment includes a procession, sports, field displays and massed pipe bands. Annan's in America first migrated to New York and Virginia. Annandale Virginia is an early settlement which celebrates The Scottish Games annually. Geography Annan stands on the River Annan—from which it is named—nearly from its mouth, accessible to vessels of 60 tons as f ...
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Andrew Granger Heiton
Andrew Granger Heiton (born Andrew Heiton Granger; – 11 June 1927) was a Scottish architect.Andrew Granger Heiton
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He was prominent in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Several of his works are now s.


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Andrew Heiton Granger was born around 1862, the son of John Granger, a farmer in ,

Andrew Heiton
Andrew Heiton (3 April 1823 – 3 March 1894) was a Scottish architect.Andrew Heiton
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He designed several notable buildings in Scotland, mostly s and s.


Early life

Heiton was born in ,

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Alyth Town Hall - Geograph
Alyth () ( gd, Ailt) is a town in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, northeast of Blairgowrie and about northwest of Dundee. In 2016 the town had an estimated population of 2,400. First mentioned by name in a 12th-century royal charter of William the Lion, Alyth for many centuries was an important market town and entrepôt on long-established drove roads by which Highland farmers brought their sheep and cattle to lowland markets. Another royal charter in 1488, from James III of Scotland granted Alyth the status of Burgh of Barony entitled to stage markets and fairs. The 17th-century stone Packhorse Bridge still stands in the middle of the town (now pedestrian-only), later joined by two other stone bridges for wheeled traffic, emphasising the settlement’s importance as a river-crossing. Agricultural improvements and expanding markets for livestock in the south contributed to Alyth’s prosperity during the 18th and early 19th centuries, while water-power provided by the Alyth ...
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Alyth Town Hall
Alyth Town Hall is a municipal structure in Albert Street in Alyth, Scotland. The structure, which is currently used as a community events venue, is not yet listed. History The building was commissioned as a result of a local initiative to raise money for a burgh hall in 1884. The site chosen by the burgh leaders was open land at the corner of Albert Street and Alexandra Street. The foundation stone for the new building was laid by the Earl of Airlie on 2 September 1886 and a bazaar was held in the local school to celebrate the event. It was designed by Andrew Heiton and his nephew, Andrew Granger Heiton, in the Tudor Revival style, built in red sandstone and was officially opened on 29 April 1887. The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage facing onto Albert Street; the central bay featured three arched doorways with architraves separated by brackets supporting a canted balcony. There was a central five-part window on the second floor and a half-timbered gable above. ...
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Alyth
Alyth () ( gd, Ailt) is a town in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, northeast of Blairgowrie and about northwest of Dundee. In 2016 the town had an estimated population of 2,400. First mentioned by name in a 12th-century royal charter of William the Lion, Alyth for many centuries was an important market town and entrepôt on long-established drove roads by which Highland farmers brought their sheep and cattle to lowland markets. Another royal charter in 1488, from James III of Scotland granted Alyth the status of Burgh of Barony entitled to stage markets and fairs. The 17th-century stone Packhorse Bridge still stands in the middle of the town (now pedestrian-only), later joined by two other stone bridges for wheeled traffic, emphasising the settlement’s importance as a river-crossing. Agricultural improvements and expanding markets for livestock in the south contributed to Alyth’s prosperity during the 18th and early 19th centuries, while water-power provided by the Alyth ...
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Alfred Waterhouse
Alfred Waterhouse (19 July 1830 – 22 August 1905) was an English architect, particularly associated with the Victorian Gothic Revival architecture, although he designed using other architectural styles as well. He is perhaps best known for his designs for Manchester Town Hall and the Natural History Museum in London, although he also built a wide variety of other buildings throughout the country. Besides his most famous public buildings he designed other town halls, the Manchester Assize buildings—bombed in World War II—and the adjacent Strangeways Prison. He also designed several hospitals, the most architecturally interesting being the Royal Infirmary Liverpool and University College Hospital London. He was particularly active in designing buildings for universities, including both Oxford and Cambridge but also what became Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds universities. He designed many country houses, the most important being Eaton Hall in Cheshire, largely demolishe ...
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Alloa Town Hall LB20976
Alloa (Received Pronunciation ; educated Scottish pronunciation /ˈaloʊa/; gd, Alamhagh, possibly meaning "rock plain") is a town in Clackmannanshire in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. It is on the north bank of the Forth at the spot where some say it ceases to be the River Forth and becomes the Firth of Forth. Alloa is south of the Ochil Hills, east of Stirling and north of Falkirk; by water Alloa is from Granton. The town, formerly a burgh of barony, is the administrative centre of Clackmannanshire Council. Historically, the economy relied heavily on trade between Glasgow and mainland Europe through its port. This became increasingly uncompetitive and the port stopped operating in 1970. The local economy is now centred on retail and leisure since the closure of major industries; only one brewer and one glassmaker survive today. Parochially, Alloa was linked with Tullibody. The towns are now distinct, albeit with Lornshill in the middle, and Alloa is about twice t ...
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