Croydon Town Hall


Croydon Town Hall is a council building serving as headquarters for Croydon London Borough Council. It is a Grade II listed building.

History

Croydon has had three town hall buildings in its history. The first was built in either 1566 or 1609, and pulled down in 1807. A replacement was built on the High Street in 1808 to a plan by Samuel Pepys Cockerell, and was demolished as part of the town's High Street widening scheme in the 1880s.
The third town hall building was previously the site of Central Croydon railway station, which was redeveloped for council use in 1895, as part of a plan to install "Municipal Offices, Courts, a Police Station, Library and many other public purposes and yet leave a considerable margin of land which might be disposed of". The building, which was designed by Charles Henman in the Victorian style and built in red brick by Messrs. W.H. Lascelles & Co, was opened by the Prince of Wales in 1896.
A statue of Queen Victoria outside the town hall, which was sculpted by Francis John Williamson, was erected in 1903.
It was established as the headquarters of the County Borough of Croydon and went to become the headquarters of the enlarged London Borough of Croydon on its formation in 1965.
The building has been extensively renovated since the mid-1980s, and connects to Croydon Clocktower and the David Lean Cinema.
The council secured additional space for its staff nearby in Taberner House in 1967 and in Bernard Weatherill House from 2013.