This building on Lavender Hill, to which Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) used to cross from Chelsea to take exercise in the countryside, was built to the design of E.W. Mountford as the Town Hall for the then Borough of Battersea in 1892-3. It has a considerable decoration on the frontage of figure sculpture which Cherry and Pevsner's 'Buildings of England' describes as 'clearly a foretaste of Edwardian things to come.' A particularly well known example of Moutford's later work is The Central Criminal Court otherwise known as The Old Bailey.

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The Buildings of England - London 2: South