Chelsea Town Hall
Chelsea Town Hall is a municipal building in King's Road, Chelsea, London. The oldest part is a Grade II* listed building and the later part is Grade II listed.History
The building was commissioned to replace a mid-19th-century vestry hall on King's Road, which had been designed by William Willmer Pocock in the Italianate style and which had become inadequate for the council's needs. It was demolished in the early 20th century, having been found to be structurally unsound, to make way for the later part of the current structure.
The oldest part of the current complex is the vestry hall in Chelsea Manor Gardens, which was designed by John McKean Brydon in the Neoclassical style and completed in January 1887. It became the headquarters of the Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea on its formation in 1900.
The building was extended north-west to the designs of Leonard Stokes in the Neoclassical style to create a large frontage on King's Road in 1907. It ceased to be the local seat of government when the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea was formed in 1965 and instead became the Chelsea branch library in 1978.
