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Barnsley Town Hall is the seat of local government in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. It is a Grade II listed building. [1] Building
Barnsley Town Hall. The Town Hall itself is visible behind some gardens; the building is made of white stone and has an impressive clock tower. Opened on 14 December 1933, Barnsley Town Hall is the seat of local government in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley.
Central ward is a ward in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. The ward contains 48 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, three are listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The ward is in the central part of the town of Barnsley, a market town until the ...
The county borough of Barnsley had been self-governing, whereas the other 13 districts were all lower-tier authorities where county-level services were provided by West Riding County Council. From its creation in 1974 until 1986, the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley was a district-level authority, with county-level services provided by South ...
The first elected council for the town of Barnsley was a local board of health established in 1853. [4] This replaced a body of improvement commissioners which had previously administered the town under a local Act of Parliament passed in 1822. [5] The local board in turn was replaced in 1869 when the town was made a municipal borough.
Barnsley became a municipal borough in 1869, and a county borough in 1913, making it administratively independent of the West Riding County Council. The borough's boundaries were extended to absorb Ardsley and Monk Bretton in 1921 and Carlton in 1938. Barnsley Town Hall was opened on 14
The department has been based in Barnsley Town Hall since the opening of the Experience Barnsley Museum and Discovery Centre in 2013, made possible by Heritage Lottery funding. It is part of Barnsley Council's Arts, Museums and Archives Service. Prior to 2013, the department was based on the top floor of Barnsley Central Library in Shambles Street.
A Sometimes known as OSGB36, the grid reference is based on the British national grid reference system, and is the system used by the Ordnance Survey. [64] [65]B Images of England, funded by English Heritage and the Heritage Lottery Fund, is a photographic record of England's listed buildings, but it is not an up-to-date record.