St Peters Town Hall

St Peters Town Hall
St Peters Town Hall in 2006.
General information
Type	Government town hall
Architectural style	Inter-War Free Classical
Town or city	Sydenham, New South Wales
Country	Australia
Construction started	16 April 1927
Completed	3 December 1927
Renovated	2009
Client	St Peters Municipal Council
Owner	Inner West Council (current)
Design and construction
Architecture firm	J. Campbell & Son
Main contractor	William M. Martin

The St Peters Town Hall is a heritage-listed town hall located in Sydenham, New South Wales, Australia. The Town Hall was built in 1927 in the Inter-War Free Classical architectural style by architects J. Campbell & Son, and replaced the 1878 St Peters Town Hall, which was located on the Princes Highway and was resumed by the state government in 1926 for road-widening. The Town Hall was the seat of St Peters Municipal Council from 1927 to 1948 and from 1949 was a branch library and community hall of the Municipality of Marrickville, which absorbed St Peters.

First Town Hall, 1878–1929

Second St Peters Town Hall

Designed by J. Campbell & Son, the foundation stone of the town hall was laid by Deputy Mayor Edward Burrows on 16 April 1927.[1] Completed to a cost of £7000, the hall was officially opened by the mayor, George Rowswell, on 3 December 1927.[2][3][4]

Heritage listing and conservation

The Town Hall and its interiors was first listed in 2001 under the Marrickville Local Environment Plan (updated 2011) as "one of the last buildings which commemorates the old Municipality of St Peters."[5]

See also

• List of town halls in Sydney
• Architecture of Sydney

References

1. "NOTES". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 27, 805. New South Wales, Australia. 16 February 1927. p. 11. Retrieved 14 March 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
2. "NEW TOWN HALL AT ST. PETERS". The Labor Daily. No. 1199. New South Wales, Australia. 5 December 1927. p. 4. Retrieved 14 March 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
3. "ST. PETERS HAS NEW TOWN HALL". Evening News. No. 18828. New South Wales, Australia. 27 October 1927. p. 17. Retrieved 14 March 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
4. "NEW TOWN HALL". The Sun. No. 5019. New South Wales, Australia. 7 December 1926. p. 8 (FINAL EXTRA). Retrieved 14 March 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
5. "St Peters Town Hall, including interiors". NSW Heritage Database. Office of Environment and Heritage. Retrieved 14 March 2018.

External links

• St Peters Town Hall – Inner West Council