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Name:CORN EXCHANGE, St Paul's Square
HER No.:4114
Type of Record:Listed Building

Summary

19th century building in Bedford Conservation Area. Formerly used as market, also site of Glenn Miller's last performance

Grid Reference:TL 049 497
Parish:BEDFORD, BEDFORD BOROUGH, BEDFORDSHIRE
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Full Description

"Stone of three bays with very big segment-arched first-floor windows and an attic with four very big chimneys like pinnacles. Lower one-bay entrance wings." Pevsner, p52

C19 Central block of hall, ground floor & semi-basement flanked by lower wings with projecting proches. Central entrance. Four space pinnacles to front roof. Ornate.


Bedfordshire Magazine, XIII/136 (Bibliographic reference). SBD10543.

Bedfordshire Times, "130 year's muck goes - in three months!" (Newspaper Article). SBD10544.

HER Photograph Archive, F4/11-12 (Photograph). SBD10506.

HER Photograph Archive, F568/23 (Photograph). SBD10506.

HER Slide Archive, 7102 (Slide). SBD10508.

HER Slide Archive, 7684 (Slide). SBD10508.

R Wildman, 1974, Bygone Bedford (Bibliographic reference). SBD10540.

Bedfordshire Magazine, Vol 25, No 195, 1995 (Bibliographic reference). SBD10543.

Protected Status:

  • Conservation Area: Bedford Town Centre Conservation Area
  • Listed Building (II) 1480129 _1: Bedford Corn Exchange

Monument Type(s):

  • BUILDING (Victorian - 1874 AD to 1899 AD)
  • MARKET (Victorian to Early 20th Century - 1874 AD to 1925 AD)
  • WAR MEMORIAL (Late 20th Century to Unknown - 1976 AD)

Associated Finds: None recorded

Associated Events

  • EBD13 - Corn Exchange, St Paul's Square, Bedford (Ref: 257)

Sources and Further Reading

---SBD10506 - Photograph: HER Photograph Archive. F4/11-12.
---SBD10508 - Slide: HER Slide Archive. 7102.
---SBD10540 - Bibliographic reference: R Wildman. 1974. Bygone Bedford.
---SBD10543 - Bibliographic reference: Bedfordshire Magazine. XIII/136.
---SBD10544 - Newspaper Article: Bedfordshire Times. "130 year's muck goes - in three months!".
[p58]SBD10543 - Bibliographic reference: Bedfordshire Magazine. Vol 25, No 195, 1995.

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