Walworth Town Hall


Walworth Town Hall is a municipal building in Walworth Road, Southwark, London. It is a Grade II listed building.

History

The building, which was designed by Henry Jarvis in the Italianate style, was opened as the vestry hall of St Mary, Newington in August 1865. After the Newington Public Library had been built to the south east of the town hall in 1892, an infill extension was added between the two buildings in 1893. The town hall became the headquarters of the Metropolitan Borough of Southwark and was renamed "Southwark Town Hall" in 1900. It was extended along Wansey street to provide further accommodation in 1902.
The building ceased to be the local seat of government when the enlarged London Borough of Southwark was formed in 1965. It was subsequently used as workspace by the council, becoming known as "Walworth Town Hall", and was also used as the local registrar's office. The Cuming Museum, which had been based in the Newington Public Library, moved into the town hall in 2006.
The roof of the building was badly damaged by a fire in March 2013 and the building was subsequently added to the Heritage at Risk Register. The council appointed as Feix & Merlin as architects and General Projects as developer for a restoration of the building in spring 2019.