Bethnal Green Town Hall


Bethnal Green Town Hall is a municipal building on the corner of Cambridge Heath Road and Patriot Square in Bethnal Green, London. It is a Grade II listed building.

History

The building was commissioned to replace an aging mid-19th century vestry hall on St Matthews Row which had become the headquarters of the Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green in 1900.
The new building, which was designed by Percy Robinson and William Alban Jones in the Baroque style and built by Brand, Pettit and Co, was completed in 1910. A large sculpture designed by Henry Poole was installed above the main entrance on Cambridge Heath Road. The building was substantially extended to the east along Patriot Square, to the designs of E.C.P. Monson in the Classical style, in 1939 and it continued to function as the local seat of government when the enlarged London Borough of Tower Hamlets was formed in 1965.
After the council moved to more modern facilities at Mulberry Place in 1993, the building lay vacant until it was converted into apartments and a hotel, preserving much of the Art Deco interior, with the hotel re-opening in November 2010.