Spa Road is a street in Bermondsey in the London Borough of Southwark . It takes it name from the historic Bermondsey Spa , developed by the painter Thomas Keyse after mineral springs were discovered there in the eighteenth century. Bermondsey Spa Gardens is located at its western end at the site of the former Spa. It contains the former Bermondsey Town Hall , built in 1930, that was the headquarters of the old Bermondsey Borough . This replaced an older building dating back to the 1880s. Nearby is the former Bermondsey Public Library, a red brick building dating from the 1890s.
7-661: Bermondsey Town Hall is a municipal building in Spa Road , Bermondsey , London. It is a Grade II listed building . The current building was commissioned as an extension to a 19th-century vestry hall which had been designed by George Elkington in the Italianate style for the Parish of St Mary Magdalen . The vestry hall became the headquarters of the Metropolitan Borough of Bermondsey in 1900. A memorial to soldiers who had served in
14-405: Is all that remains of the vestry hall itself. After the vestry hall had become inadequate for the council's needs, civic leaders decided to build some new "municipal offices" to supplement the vestry hall. The site selected for the new building, which was just to the east of the vestry hall, had previously been occupied by Bermondsey Public Baths. The foundation stone for the new municipal offices
21-630: The Second Boer War was unveiled by General Sir Redvers Buller in the vestibule of the building in 1903. The vestry hall was badly damaged in the Blitz during the Second World War and was subsequently demolished. The memorial was removed from the building before it was demolished and, after being in storage for some 40 years, installed in St James's Church, Bermondsey . Two stone pillars and some ironwork
28-534: The coat of arms of Bermondsey. Internally, the main atrium on the ground floor featured a grand staircase and Doric order marble columns which supported an elliptical landing on the first floor and an elliptical domed ceiling above. The new building took over the role of headquarters of the Metropolitan Borough of Bermondsey during the Second World War but ceased to be the local seat of government when
35-500: The enlarged London Borough of Southwark was formed in 1965. The building continued to be used as additional workspace by Southwark Council until 2010. The building was sold to a developer, Hollybrook Homes, in December 2012. Works to convert the building into a block of apartments known as "Bath House Lofts", to a design by architects, Burwell Deakins, were completed in summer 2014. Spa Road, Bermondsey Spa Road railway station
42-478: Was laid by the mayor, Alderman Harry Bateman, on 20 October 1928. The building was designed by Henry Tansley in the Greek Revival style and completed in 1930. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with nine bays; the central section included a large three-bay, full-height, tetrastyle Ionic order portico with a doorway on the ground floor, three windows on the first floor and a pediment above bearing
49-460: Was located at the eastern end of the street and was the original terminus of the capital's first railway the London and Greenwich Railway when it opened in 1836. It was rebuilt twice and relocated across the street before closing to passengers in 1915. The viaduct carrying trains from or towards London Bridge station still crosses the street. This London road or road transport-related article
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