Enter the Town Hall

We enter the Town Hall at the main entrance on St Nicholas Street.The mosaic in the floor of the entrance foyer is the Common Seal of the Borough, which dates from the 13th century and was used as the armorial bearings of Scarborough until 1935. The Latin words surrounding the seal mean: ‘The Common Seal of the Burgesses of Scarborough’. Behind the stairwell are stained glass windows bearing the coats of arms of some of Yorkshire’s major cities and towns. From top left they are: Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield, Hull, Wakefield, York, Sheffield and Harrogate. Civic representatives from these areas attended the official opening of the Town Hall in July 1903.

The Cabinet Room and the Members’ Retiring Room, which are both off the entrance foyer, were respectively, the dining room and library of St Nicholas House. Both rooms contain the original fireplaces and overmantels. The one in the Members’ Room bears the date of the completion of St Nicholas House, 1845. In the entrance foyer is a decorative cast iron incense burner, one of the 100 placed on London Bridge for the wedding of Edward, Prince of Wales to Princess Alexandra of Denmark on 10th March1863.