Camberwell Town Hall, London


Camberwell Town Hall is a municipal building in Peckham Road, Camberwell, London.

History

The building was commissioned to replace a 19th-century vestry hall on the site which had been designed by Edward Power in a mixture of French Renaissance style and Italianate style; the old building was only partially demolished at the time and elements are still visible in the western elevation of the new building. It had become the headquarters of the Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell as "Camberwell Town Hall" in 1900.
The new building, which was designed by Culpin and Bowers in the Classical style was completed in 1934. It took over the role of headquarters of the Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell and continued to be the local seat of government, when the enlarged London Borough of Southwark was formed in 1965. It then became known as "Southwark Town Hall" but, after the council moved to 160 Tooley Street in March 2009, the building was sold to a developer in December 2014. Works to convert the property into student accommodation to a design by Jestico and Whiles for Goldsmiths College were completed in 2016.