<p>The civic heart of Kidderminster Town Centre.
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Penny Black Square
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Sir Rowland Hill statue outside Kidderminster Town Hall.
</p><p>With a guitar from the Kidderminster Arts Festival that took place during August 2016.
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Grade II listed.
</p><p><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-156460-statue-of-sir-rowland-hill-worcestershir#.V88ML61N-Gw">Statue of Sir Rowland Hill, Kidderminster</a>
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<pre>   VICAR STREET
   1.
   5250 Statue of Sir Rowland Hill
   SO 8376 1/88
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<pre>   II GV
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<pre>   2.
   Circa 1881, by Sir Thomas Brock. Circular granite plinth with standing stone
   statue. Inscribed 'Born at Kidderminster 1795 buried in Westminster Abbey
   1879' and 'To his creative mind and patient energy the world is indebted for
   the Penny Postage introduced 1840'.
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<pre>   Listing NGR: SO8318676564
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<p>The Town Hall is Grade II listed.
</p><p><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-156462-the-town-hall-worcestershire#.V88MTq1N-Gw">The Town Hall, Kidderminster</a>
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<pre>   VICAR STREET
   1.
   5250 (west side)
   The Town Hall
   SO 8376 1/90
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<pre>   II GV
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<pre>   2.
   1876-7, by J T Meredith. District Council premises; formerly council offices
   and chamber, and magistrates court. Two storeys in red brick with stone dressings.
   Brick parapet with inset iron grilles and stone cornice on brackets. Pilasters
   in brick with stone caps divide the 3 bays. Flat carved cornices on brackets
   to windows, carved aprons, cills on brackets. Ground floor in channelled rustication
   has 3 round-headed windows and a round-headed entry below a window with stone
   balcony. Clock on a wrought bracket. Barometer in the wall. Hansard roof
   with round-headed attic windows.
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<pre>   Listing NGR: SO8314776555
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This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.
</p><p>Source: English Heritage
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Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence.
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/39415781@N06">Elliott Brown</a> from Birmingham, United Kingdom
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