Part of the
Acorn Archive
Penzance,
Cornwall
Architecture
and Heritage
Market House
& Town Hall
Changes –
Lloyds Bank
► Drawings (To follow later)
Market House and
Town Hall, as built in 1837,
an idealistic view which does not reflect the narrowness
of Market Place as it proceeds through the town.
No steps down are shown from The Terrace.
This is the drawing that Michael Colliver traced over to
show his proposal for the fountain.
On that sketch of 1853 he also shows proposed steps down
from The Terrace.
There was a water drinking fountain on the west face of
The Market House,
on the right hand side, opposite side to the Market
Cross.
The drawing does not quite tie in with this photograph of
the West façade.
The building may have been altered prior to the 1925
alterations.
Photograph of
a watercolour by Bouverie Hoyton,
a friend of Frederick Drewitt and who made a number
of graphic representations of schemes for the firm.
This was the first draught scheme. I do not know if the
original painting has survived.
I regret to say that many pictures and drawings had been
sent to
the paper recycling plant before I managed to save some.
Brand New
Façade. 1925.
Quite suitably, facing Oliver Caldwell’s Nr 27 Market
Place.
This was a Preston photograph, a handful were rescued.
Prestons received many commissions from the firm.
Frederick G Drewitt was a master of Colonial Neo-Classic
Architecture.
The firm held the Classic Orders in good hands, but
adding to it, rather than
slavishly following the standards; Palladio and
Vitruvius,
as laid out in Stratton, became a part of life in the
firm.
When I first joined the firm in 1962, the offices were in
Lloyds Bank Chambers.
Previously they had been in Lennards Chambers, an Oliver
Caldwell building.
Raymond
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