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title="Listed building">Listed Building</a> – Grade II*</div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Official name</th><td class="infobox-data">Ripon Town Hall</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Designated</th><td class="infobox-data">27 May 1949</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Reference no.</th><td class="infobox-data">1174370</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238443738">.mw-parser-output .locmap .od{position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .id{position:absolute;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .locmap .l0{font-size:0;position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pv{line-height:110%;position:absolute;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .locmap 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/11px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/14px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div></div></div><div style="padding-top:0.2em">Shown in North Yorkshire</div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Ripon Town Hall</b> is a municipal building in the Market Place, <a href="/wiki/Ripon" title="Ripon">Ripon</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_Yorkshire" title="North Yorkshire">North Yorkshire</a>, England. The structure, which was the headquarters of Ripon Borough Council, is a Grade II* <a href="/wiki/Listed_building" title="Listed building">listed building</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-listed_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-listed-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ripon_Town_Hall&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Allanson_plaque_in_Ripon_Town_Hall_(geograph_4950174).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Allanson_plaque_in_Ripon_Town_Hall_%28geograph_4950174%29.jpg/220px-Allanson_plaque_in_Ripon_Town_Hall_%28geograph_4950174%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Allanson_plaque_in_Ripon_Town_Hall_%28geograph_4950174%29.jpg/330px-Allanson_plaque_in_Ripon_Town_Hall_%28geograph_4950174%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Allanson_plaque_in_Ripon_Town_Hall_%28geograph_4950174%29.jpg/440px-Allanson_plaque_in_Ripon_Town_Hall_%28geograph_4950174%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption>Plaque in the town hall which acknowledges the role of Elizabeth Allanson in commissioning the building</figcaption></figure> <p>The building was commissioned, as a place for preserving the borough <a href="/wiki/Muniment" title="Muniment">muniments</a>, by Elizabeth Allanson, who had inherited <a href="/wiki/Studley_Royal_Park" title="Studley Royal Park">Studley Royal Park</a> from her father, <a href="/wiki/William_Aislabie_(1700%E2%80%931781)" title="William Aislabie (1700–1781)">William Aislabie</a>, and was also the widow of the former local <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">Member of Parliament</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Allanson" title="Charles Allanson">Charles Allanson</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The site she selected was occupied by two buildings, one of which was a public house which had previously been used by the borough council for its meetings.<sup id="cite_ref-time_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-time-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The new building was designed by <a href="/wiki/James_Wyatt" title="James Wyatt">James Wyatt</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Neoclassical_architecture" title="Neoclassical architecture">neoclassical style</a>, built in brick with a <a href="/wiki/Stucco" title="Stucco">stuccoed</a> coating and was completed in 1799.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with five bays facing onto the Market Square; the central section of three bays, which slightly projected forward, featured a round headed doorway with a <a href="/wiki/Fanlight" title="Fanlight">fanlight</a> on the ground floor flanked by round headed windows.<sup id="cite_ref-listed_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-listed-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There were three <a href="/wiki/Sash_window" title="Sash window">sash windows</a> on the first floor protected by <a href="/wiki/Wrought-iron" class="mw-redirect" title="Wrought-iron">wrought-iron</a> railings and flanked by <a href="/wiki/Ionic_order" title="Ionic order">Ionic order</a> columns supporting an <a href="/wiki/Frieze" title="Frieze">frieze</a> as well as a <a href="/wiki/Modillion" title="Modillion">modillioned</a> <a href="/wiki/Pediment" title="Pediment">pediment</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-listed_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-listed-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Internally, the principal room was the council chamber on the first floor.<sup id="cite_ref-listed_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-listed-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following the death of Elizabeth Allanson, ownership of the building passed to her niece, Mrs Elizabeth Sophie Lawrence, in 1808, then to a distant relative, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_de_Grey,_2nd_Earl_de_Grey" title="Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey">Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey</a>, in 1845 and then to Grey's nephew, the <a href="/wiki/George_Robinson,_1st_Marquess_of_Ripon" title="George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon">Marquess of Ripon</a>, in 1859: also, in that year, the Yorkshire Agricultural Show Horticultural Society decided to pay for a clock which was installed in the <a href="/wiki/Tympanum_(architecture)" title="Tympanum (architecture)">tympanum</a> of the pediment.<sup id="cite_ref-time_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-time-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In August 1886, as a permanent record of the <a href="/wiki/Ripon_Millenary_Festival" title="Ripon Millenary Festival">Ripon Millenary Festival</a>, a pageant to celebrate the supposed millenary of the granting of a Royal Charter to Ripon by <a href="/wiki/Alfred_the_Great" title="Alfred the Great">Alfred the Great</a>, the frieze at the top of the building was inscribed with the words "Except Ye Lord Keep Ye Cittie Ye Wakeman Waketh in Vain".<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The inscription reflects <a href="/wiki/Psalm_127" title="Psalm 127">Psalm 127</a> "unless the Lord keeps the city, the watchman waketh but in vain." The substitution of the word "wakeman" for "watchman" refers to the wakeman or horn blower who was responsible blowing the horn at the corners of the market cross at 9pm every night at the start of the nightly patrol to identify any enemies in the city.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Marquess of Ripon assigned the building to the borough as a gift on 31 July 1897.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The town hall continued to serve as the headquarters of the borough council for much of the 20th century<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but it ceased to be the local seat of government after the enlarged <a href="/wiki/Borough_of_Harrogate" title="Borough of Harrogate">Harrogate District Council</a> was formed in 1974.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Concerns over the deteriorating fabric of the building led to Ripon City Council, as tenant, to request, in March 2021, that Harrogate Borough Council, as owner of the building, carry out urgent repairs.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Works of Art in the town hall include a portrait by Henry Milbourne of the benefactor, Elizabeth Allanson,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a portrait by <a href="/wiki/James_Thornhill" title="James Thornhill">Sir James Thornhill</a> of the former <a href="/wiki/Chancellor_of_the_Exchequer" title="Chancellor of the Exchequer">Chancellor of the Exchequer</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Aislabie" title="John Aislabie">John Aislabie</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a portrait by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Lawrence" title="Thomas Lawrence">Sir Thomas Lawrence</a> of the former <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Prime Minister</a>, <a href="/wiki/F._J._Robinson,_1st_Viscount_Goderich" title="F. 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