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24-APR-2011

MARKET SQUARE BUILDINGS

Singleton Open Air Museum - West Sussex

On the right is the Market Hall from Titchfield near Fareham in Hampshire. It dates from 1620, was dismantled in 1971 and rebuilt at Singleton in 1974.
Centre is the Upper Hall from Crawley which dates from 1494. So called because the upper floor was a long hall which served as a meeting place for some public purposes, and is now used as the museum's meeting room. The ground floor houses the Museum’s library. The original building was at least five bays long, but had been shortened at both ends. The three surviving bays were dismantled in 1972, and in 1978 were re-constructed at Singleton as near as possible in their original form. To make the building usable the windows have been glazed .....originally they were unglazed, as are all the other medieval windows at the Museum.
On the left are two Medieval Shops from Horsham that date from the late 15th century. The medieval timbers were rescued when the shops were demolished in 1968 and given to the Museum. The surviving timbers provided sufficient evidence for the reconstruction at Singleton in 1985, but many of them were not in good enough condition to be re-used and had to be replaced with new oak. None of the front ground-floor timbers survived, so the reconstruction has a copy of a surviving shop front of similar date at Lingfield, near Horsham.


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