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Milborne Port Town Hall
Milborne Port Town Hall is a municipal building in the High Street in Milborne Port, Somerset, England. The structure, which serves as meeting place of Milborne Port Parish Council, is a Grade II listed building. History The building was probably commissioned by the then lord of the manor and member of parliament, Sir Thomas Travell. It was designed in the neoclassical style, built in hamstone ashlar and was completed in 1720. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage of three bays facing onto the High Street. There were three round headed openings formed by Doric order pilasters, voussoirs and Keystone (architecture), keystones on the ground floor and three sash windows with architraves on the first floor. The bays were flanked by full-height pilasters surmounted by triglyphs and guttae, and at roof level, there was a cornice and a hipped roof, with a Bell-cot, bellcote at the east end. Internally, the principal rooms were the main hall on the ground floor and the assemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milborne Port
Milborne Port is a village, Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom, electoral ward and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in Somerset, England, east of Sherborne, and in the South Somerset district. It has a population of 2,802. The parish includes the hamlet (place), hamlets of Milborne Wick and Kingsbury Regis. The village is surrounded by green fields and countryside on the banks of the River Gascoigne, a tributary of the River Ivel or River Yeo (South Somerset), River Yeo. The village has a primary school, which occupies the site of the former infant school. The junior school was closed and all pupils and staff moved to the infant site. In 2006 a new three-classroom extension was opened. History The nearby Laycock Railway Cutting is the best single exposure of the Bathonian ’Fuller's Earth Rock' in South Somerset. Ammonites indicating the Morrisi and Subcontractus zones of the Middle Bathonian are frequent. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
