3-017-300 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Opening of the new Corn Exchange at Aylesbury, 1865. 'The ceremony of opening the new Corn Exchange and Market-hall in the thriving town of Aylesbury took place on Wednesday week - the Right Hon. Lord Carington, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire, presiding...The site of the new Corn Exchange is in the old Market Square...The edifice, designed by Mr. D. Brandon, of Berkeley-square, is of the Elizabethan style of architecture ; the materials are red brick, with stone facings. The front, adjoining the County Hall, consists of three archways - one for carriages, the other two for foot passengers - supported by ornamental pillars...Above the archways are two handsome rooms, separated by folding doors, and when thrown into one forming an assembly-room 44 ft. by 83 ft., with retiring rooms and other conveniences. The front contains a handsome bay-window, surmounted by an ornamental gable, with a space for a clock-face, and Elizabethan terminals...The building is 90 ft. by 45 ft...There is an office let with the wine cellars under the market, and a tap for the sale of beer or liquors'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865.