Kirton in Holland Town Hall is a municipal building in Station Road in

Kirton, Lincolnshire Kirton or Kirton in Holland is an English village and civil parish in the Borough of Boston, Lincolnshire. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 5,371. History The Domesday Book of 1086 terms the village ''Cherchetune''. ...

, England. The structure is currently used as a community events venue and as the meeting place of Kirton Parish Council.

History

The town hall was commissioned and paid for by a local potato businessman, William Dennis, to commemorate the

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. The site he chose for the new building was open land on the south side of Station Road. The foundation stone for the new building was laid in 1911. It was designed by Henry Kidd in the Châteauesque style, built in red brick and was officially opened by Baroness von Eckardstein in August 1912. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with seven bays facing onto Station Road. The central bay, which slightly projected forward, featured a two-stage tower; there was a doorway flanked by

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s supporting a foundation stone and a

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in the first stage, two small pedimented windows in the second stage and a

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and an iron

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above. The second bays on both sides were fenestrated by pedimented

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s while the other bays were fenestrated by pedimented

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s. The building was subsequently extended with a four-bay extension to the left and a single bay extension to the right. Internally, the principal rooms were the main assembly hall and a smaller reception room, known as the Upsall Room, which became the meeting place of Kirton Parish Council. A statue to commemorate the life of the benefactor, William Dennis, was designed by

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and was unveiled in front of the town hall in 1930. The Upsall Room and the entrance hall were refurbished in the early 21st century and the management of the town hall was transferred to a committee of local residents and users which was registered as a charity in 2007. A recipe book was published by the town hall management committee in June 2011 to commemorate the centenary of the completion of the town hall.

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{{reflist Government buildings completed in 1912 Kirton, Lincolnshire City and town halls in Lincolnshire