Airdrie Town Hall
city hall in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Airdie Town Hall, also known as the Sir John Wilson Town Hall, is an events venue in Stirling Street, Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is a Category B listed building.
History
In the early 20th century, the administrative centre of the town was the old town house in Bank Street which had been completed in 1826. However, civic leaders needed a public hall in which to hold concerts and other public events and the businessman and former member of parliament for Falkirk Burghs, Sir John Wilson, 1st Baronet offered to contribute £10,000 towards the cost of construction. The site they selected on the south side of Stirling Street had previously been occupied by a building known as Miller's Court.
The new building was designed by John Thomson in the neoclassical style, built in ashlar stone and completed in 1912. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with seven bays facing onto Stirling Street; the central section of five bays, which slightly projected forward, featured a doorway flanked by pilasters and brackets supporting a segmentally arched pediment with the burgh coat of arms in the tympanum; on either side of the doorway were oculi with garland surrounds. There was a Distyle in antis in the central three bays on the first floor with Corinthian order columns and pilasters supporting a large entablature and a balustrade; there was a sash window with the burgh coat of arms in the pediment in the central bay and sash windows with open pediments on either side of the Distyle in antis.
Performers at the town hall have included the rock band, The Spencer Davis Group, in January 1966 and the rock band, The Proclaimers, in June 2007. The town hall also hosted the annual Gaelic festival, the Royal National Mòd, in 1993.
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