The Council Chamber

The Council Chamber has some fine panelling created by a firm of local carpenters. The cypher ‘CR’ is prominent in the stained glass windows both here in the Council Chamber and outside in the corridor. This is the cypher of King Charles I, in whose reign the mace of the Borough was made. At the rear of the room, under the public gallery, is what is still referred to as the Robing Room, in which members of the Council used to don their robes before Council meetings and other civic occasions. The wearing of robes by Councillors ended at the reorganisation of local government in 1974.