Listed Buildings
in Stoke-on-Trent and area
Former
meat market, Tontine Street, Hanley
Area
Hanley |
Street
Tontine Street |
Heritage No.
177 A |
Grade
II |
Date Listed
02 Oct 1951 |
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Building:
Originally built as
a meat market, in the late 1990's refurbished as the
'Tontines Shopping Centre', in 1999 used as Waterstone's
Book Shop and also a Wetherstone's Public House 'Reginald
Mitchell' |
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Location:
STOKE ON TRENT SJ8847 TONTINE
STREET, Hanley |
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Description:
Built in 1831, classic style, rectangular with a facade of
five bays |
View from
Tontine Square end
Webberly's book and print shop is visible in the
background.
1831. Classic style.
Rectangular, with facade of 5 bays, the central
containing an arched entrance with a cupola above.
All the side bays have Roman Doric entrances, the
extreme sides being pedimented and having featured entrances
with coupled columns supporting a pediment. Plain frieze;
blocking course.
It
was from this covered market that Potteries' people drew lots
for tickets to escape to a hopefully better life in the New
World.
Built in 1831 as a shambles (butchers slaughterhouse), the
cattle market was in nearby
Lower Bethesda Street.
The market closed on Saturday 14th November 1987. Three days
later the stallholders were trading in the underground market of
the new 'Potteries Shopping Centre' in Market Square.
Corner of the old Meat Market
Tontine Street to the left, Percy Street to the
right.
Main Entrance on Tontine Street
Note the
Cupola, with the clock face, over the entrance.
photos: Steve
Birks 2000
  
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