EALING London
Town Hall
Fellowes Prynne’s plans of 1927 were carried out largely as designed, in
1930, incorporating a modification in the council chamber to comply with the
Ministry of Health’s reduction in the permitted cost from £70 000 to £64 000 and
for acoustic reasons. By all accounts its design impressed the community. To
quote from The Middlesex County Times:
The central feature of the new building comprises an entrance hall on the
ground floor with a grand staircase leading to the council chamber on the first
floor. The entrance hall…is separated from the staircase by an oak Gothic
screen… The entrance doors have carved and traceried panels with a fanlight in
the arch over… In the grand staircase, the entrance hall and the first floor
corridor to the council chamber is a marble dado, 3ft. 6 ins. high, the skirting
of which is in Belgian black, the dado in Lunel and the capping in Napoleon.
There are wrought iron stair rails with a bronze handrail. The floors… are in
Roman mosaic.
(Middlesex County Times 1 November 1930) |
