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The former Middlesex Sessions House or the Old Sessions House is a large building on Clerkenwell Green in the London Borough of Islington in London, England, built in 1780 as the courthouse for the Middlesex Quarter Sessions. It is a Grade II* listed building. [1]
The sessions were location at Hicks Hall, St John Street, Clerkenwell from 1601, with the April and October sessions taking place at Westminster Hall. A new Middlesex Sessions House was opened at Clerkenwell Green in 1780. The area of the Middlesex sessions was reduced in 1889 when the County of London Quarter Sessions were created.
Sessions were transferred to the new Middlesex Sessions House on Clerkenwell Green (which, for a time, also became known colloquially as "Hicks Hall"). [4] Middlesex Sessions House closed in turn in 1921, when cases spanning the Inner London area on both sides of the Thames were moved to the Sessions House in Newington. [7]
The sessions house for the Middlesex Quarter Sessions was Hicks Hall in Clerkenwell (just outside the City boundary) from 1612 to 1782, and Middlesex Sessions House on Clerkenwell Green from 1782 to 1921. The quarter sessions performed most of the limited administration on a county level prior to the creation of the Middlesex County Council in ...
Clerkenwell Green. Clerkenwell Green lies at the centre of the old village, by the church, and has a mixture of housing, offices and pubs, dominated by the imposing former Middlesex Sessions House. It was built in 1782, extended during the Victorian era, and by the early 21st century used as a Masonic hall. The name is something of a historical ...
Clerkenwell (old) Prison, also known as the Clerkenwell House of Detention or Middlesex House of Detention [3] was a prison in Clerkenwell, London, opened in 1847 and demolished in 1890. [4] It held prisoners awaiting trial.
Middlesex Sessions House, Clerkenwell Green: 1779–1782 (building) Joseph Nollekens: Relief sculptures Grade II* [3] Postal Workers' War Memorial Western Postal District: Mount Pleasant Mail Centre, Farringdon Road: 1920? Aedicule: Grade II
In 1893 when the Middlesex sessions papers were to be moved from the sessions house in Clerkenwell (an area that was previously Middlesex but now London) an argument broke out between the two county councils as to who should have responsibility for the material. This protracted dispute lasted some five years, with a high court judge eventually ...