Open House Festival

Limehouse Town Hall

community/cultural

A&C Harston, 1879

Limehouse Town Hall, 646 Commercial Road, E14 7HA

Limehouse Town Hall is a building and resource for artists and cultural producers, audiences and communities from Tower Hamlets and beyond to share ideas, celebrate, organise, and imagine a better here and now.

Getting there

Tube

Limehouse

Train

Limehouse

Access

Facilities

Accessibility notes

Limehouse Town Hall is accessible up 6 steps to the main hallway, then 27 steps to the grand hall.

About

Architecture

Limehouse Town Hall’s foundation stone was laid in 1879 and the building opened in 1881. The building consists of a number of offices and a grand assembly hall. Originally a Vestry Hall it was taken over by the newly formed Stepney Borough Council in 1900 and since then has been known as a Town Hall.

In its lifetime the building has been put to many uses, including a concert hall, the National Museum of Labour History, a Neighbourhood Centre and a shelter for the homeless.

Arts & Crafts

Limehouse Creates arts & crafts market will be taking place at Limehouse Town Hall and St Anne's Churchyard on 10 September. There will be over 30 local makers selling their crafts to the public.

Online presence

www.limehousetownhall.co.uk

www.instagram.com/limehousetownhall

Nearby

Drop in

St Anne's Church, Limehouse

religious, concert/performance space, community/cultural

St Anne's Limehouse has been described as 'the finest parish church in England.' Designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor, it is Grade I listed and one of the Major Churches in the Church of England. It is home to a thriving Christian congregation.

Nicholas Hawksmoor, 1730

Drop in

St Paul's Bow Common

religious

Described as 'the most significant church built after the WWII in Britain' - Brutalist, inclusive and influential signpost for future church design.

Robert Maguire and Keith Murray, 1960

Drop in

Museum of London Docklands

museum

Grade I listed, late Georgian sugar warehouse now housing the Museum of London Docklands. Sensitively restored, the new multimedia displays coexist with the massive timber and brick structures of the original building.

George Gwilt & Son, 1802

Guided tour

Lansbury Lawrence Primary School

education

Lansbury Lawrence (formally Susan Lawrence and Elizabeth Lansbury) opened in the 1951 Festival of Britain as a showpiece of the Live Architecture exhibition in the Lansbury Estate. An interesting mid-century design with original features.

Yorke Rosenberg Mardall, 1951

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