Coats of Arms, Market Sign and Decorative Capitals
at Church Street, Stoke
 

Location: On the façade of the Market Hall, Church Street, Stoke
Date of installation: 1900
Architect: unknown
 

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This single storey market building contains several small shops and also acts as a frontage to an open air market.

 

Detail on the clock tower

Description: This single storey market building contains several small shops and also acts as a frontage to an open air market. Over the main entrance to the market is a relief panel referring the produce of the market, the central image is a bull's head, this is surrounded by game birds, fish, fruit and other produce. On either wing of the building is a relief panel of the same coat of arms, a quartered shield with several charges. The building frontage has several slim pilasters which act as divisions between shop fronts. These are topped with ceramic capitals depicting a Green Man-type face amongst foliage.

Main entrance to the open air market area

This single storey market building contains several small shops either side of the main entrance

Over the main entrance to the market is a relief panel referring the produce of the market,
the central image is a bull's head, this is surrounded by game birds, fish, fruit and other produce.
 

Photos: Feb 2006

more photos of the market

 

   

Materials:

Part of work	Material	Dimensions
Relief panel with bull's head	Sandstone, red	90cm high x 70cm wide x 10cm deep approx
Coats of arms x 2	Sandstone, red	70cm high x 50cm wide x 10cm deep approx
Capitals	Ceramic, green and brown	20cm high x 30cm wide x 6cm deep approx