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Old Town Hall, St Just
The Old Town Hall is a former municipal building on Chapel Road in St Just in Penwith, a town in Cornwall, in England. The building, which was in municipal use for much of the 20th century, is now managed as a community venue. History The building was commissioned as a drill hall for the 1st Cornwall (Duke of Cornwall's) Artillery Volunteers, which was raised in Cornwall in response to the threat of a French invasion. It consisted of thirteen Artillery Volunteer Corps and the last numbered of these was the 13th (St Just) Cornwall Artillery Volunteer Corps, which was raised in St Just in Penwith on 26 September 1862. The drill hall was designed in the Victorian architecture, Victorian Free style, built in local granite and was completed in late 1862. The design involved a Cant (architecture), canted main frontage at the southwest corner of the building. The frontage was fenestrated with a Diocletian window on the ground floor and a single casement window on the first floor. Abov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Just In Penwith
St Just (), also known as St Just in Penwith, is a town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Penwith district of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It lies along the B3306 road which connects St Ives, Cornwall, St Ives to the A30 road. The parish encompasses the town of St Just and the nearby settlements of Trewellard, Pendeen and Kelynack: it is bounded by the parishes of Morvah to the north-east, Sancreed and Madron to the east, St Buryan and Sennen to the south and by the sea in the west. The parish consists of of land, of water and of foreshore. The town of St Just is the most westerly town in mainland Britain and is situated approximately west of Penzance along the Great Britain road numbering scheme, A3071. St Just parish, which includes Pendeen and the surrounding area, has a population of 4,637 (2011 census). St Just in Penwith (electoral division), An electoral ward of the same name also exists: the population of this ward at the same census was 4,81 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
