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'''Abingdon County Hall Museum''' (a.k.a. '''Abingdon Museum''') is a [[local museum]] in [[Abingdon, Oxfordshire|Abingdon]], [[Oxfordshire]], [[England]]. The museum is run by [[Abingdon Town Council]] and supported by Abingdon Museum Friends,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://abingdonmuseumfriends.org.uk/ | title=Abingdon Museum Friends | location=Abingdon-on-Thames, UK | accessdate=July 8, 2012}}</ref> a [[Charitable organization|registered charity]].<ref>{{EW charity|1137089|Abingdon Museum Friends}}</ref>
'''Abingdon County Hall Museum''' (also known as '''Abingdon Museum''') is a [[local museum]] in [[Abingdon, Oxfordshire|Abingdon]], Oxfordshire, England. The museum is run by [[Abingdon Town Council]] and supported by Abingdon Museum Friends,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://abingdonmuseumfriends.org.uk/ | title=Abingdon Museum Friends | location=Abingdon-on-Thames, UK | accessdate=8 July 2012}}</ref> a [[Charitable organization|registered charity]].<ref>{{EW charity|1137089|Abingdon Museum Friends}}</ref> It is a [[Grade I]] [[listed building]].<ref name=listed>{{NHLE|num=1199601|desc=County Hall and Market House, Abingdon|accessdate=29 April 2018}}</ref>


==Building==
==Building==
[[File:County Hall loggia, Abingdon.jpg|thumb|Internal view of the loggia.]]
[[File:County Hall loggia, Abingdon.jpg|thumb|Internal view of the loggia.]]
The building was built as a county hall for [[Berkshire]], Abingdon being Berkshire's [[county town]]; it was to serve as the principal sessions house and administrative home for the [[Justice of the Peace|Justices]] of the county. The county hall was designed in the [[Baroque architecture|Baroque]] style by [[Christopher Kempster]] who trained with [[Christopher Wren|Sir Christopher Wren]] on [[St Paul's Cathedral]].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/upload/pdf/abingdon_county_hall.pdf | title=Abingdon County Hall: Information for Teachers | publisher=[[English Heritage]]/[[Palladian Press]] | year=2004 }}</ref> It stands on large pilasters with a sheltered area beneath for use as a market or other municipal functions and was completed in 1683.<ref name=listed/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abingdonmuseum.org.uk/museumhall01.htm |title=The County Hall & Museum Collection |work=Abingdon County Hall Museum |date=3 November 2013 |accessdate=8 April 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103153745/http://www.abingdonmuseum.org.uk/museumhall01.htm |archivedate=3 November 2013 }}</ref>
The museum is housed in a [[Grade I listed]] 17th-century [[County Hall]] building, located in the market place in the centre of the town.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abingdonmuseum.org.uk/museumhall01.htm |title=The County Hall & Museum Collection |work=Abingdon County Hall Museum |publisher=[[Archive.org]] |date=3 November 2013 |accessdate=8 April 2014 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103153745/http://www.abingdonmuseum.org.uk/museumhall01.htm |archivedate=November 3, 2013 }}</ref> It is in the [[Baroque architecture|Baroque]] style and originally housed a courtroom for [[Assizes]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/abingdon-county-hall-museum/ | title=Abingdon County Hall Museum | publisher=[[English Heritage]] | location=UK | accessdate=July 8, 2012}}</ref> [[Nikolaus Pevsner]] said of the building: "Of the free-standing town halls of England with open ground floors this is the grandest".<ref>{{cite web|first=Nikolaus |last=Pevsner |authorlink=Nikolaus Pevsner |year=1966 |url=http://www.abingdon.gov.uk/partners/abingdon-county-hall-museum |title=Abingdon County Hall Museum former website |publisher=[[Archive.org]] |accessdate=31 October 2015 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104144128/http://www.abingdon.gov.uk/partners/abingdon-county-hall-museum |archivedate=November 4, 2013 }}</ref> The building was formerly the county hall of [[Berkshire]]; Abingdon was the [[county town]] until it ceded that title to [[Reading, Berkshire|Reading]] in 1867. The hall was built 1678–83 and was most likely designed by the Oxfordshire-born [[stonemason]] [[Christopher Kempster]], who trained with [[Sir Christopher Wren]] on [[St Paul's Cathedral]].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/upload/pdf/abingdon_county_hall.pdf | title=Abingdon County Hall: Information for Teachers | publisher=[[English Heritage]]/[[Palladian Press]] | year=2004 }}</ref> It stands on pillars with a sheltered area beneath for use as a market or other municipal functions.


[[Nikolaus Pevsner]] said of the building: "Of the free-standing town halls of England with open ground floors this is the grandest".<ref>{{cite web|first=Nikolaus |last=Pevsner |authorlink=Nikolaus Pevsner |year=1966 |url=http://www.abingdon.gov.uk/partners/abingdon-county-hall-museum |title=Abingdon County Hall Museum former website |accessdate=31 October 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104144128/http://www.abingdon.gov.uk/partners/abingdon-county-hall-museum |archivedate=4 November 2013 }}</ref> It housed a courtroom for the [[assizes]]<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/abingdon-county-hall-museum/ | title=Abingdon County Hall Museum | publisher=[[English Heritage]] | location=UK | accessdate=8 July 2012}}</ref> until 1867 when Abingdon ceded that role to [[Reading Crown Court|Reading Assize Courts]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.berkshirehistory.com/villages/abingdon.html|title=Abingdon|publisher=Berkshire History|accessdate=18 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abingdon.gov.uk/history/buildings/county-hall|title=County Hall|publisher=Abingdon Area Archaeological and Historical Society|accessdate=18 August 2019}}</ref>
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==Collections and exhibitions==
The museum's collections were started in 1919. The museum has permanent collections and presents temporary exhibitions several times a year. There are also smaller exhibitions on local themes that are changed every month.<ref>[http://www.culture24.org.uk/se000170 Abingdon County Hall Museum], [[Culture24]], UK.</ref>


Following the completion of a major restoration of the building, [[Elizabeth II|Queen Elizabeth II]], visited the town hall, signed the visitor's book and unveiled a plaque in November 1956.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishpathe.com/video/special-the-royal-visit |title=Special - The Royal Visit 1956|publisher=British Pathe|access-date=31 March 2022}}</ref>
On 1 December 2011, with the help of [[British Motor Heritage]],<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cnbgu7Kx8s | title=MGB returns to Abingdon |publisher=[[British Motor Heritage]] | work=[[YouTube]] | date=March 1, 2012 |accessdate=July 27, 2012}}</ref> the last [[MGB Roadster]] sports car off the production line in Abingdon in 1980 was lifted through a window 30 feet up, for display in the museum's main gallery from 2012.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP-RtYmp_uk | title=Television news item | publisher=[[BBC Oxford News]] | work=[[YouTube]] | date=December 1, 2011 | accessdate=December 2, 2011}}</ref>


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==Collections and exhibitions==
[[The Monks' Map]] of the [[River Thames]] around Abingdon in the 16th century has been held at the town's Guildhall since 1907.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-13879363 |title=Monks' map was commissioned by Abingdon landowner |publisher=[[BBC News]] | work=Oxford | date=23 June 2011 |accessdate=February 5, 2012}}</ref> After conservation, it has been redisplayed at the museum itself from its reopening in 2012. A reproduction of the Anglo-Saxon [[Abingdon Sword]], discovered in the river at Abingdon and held by the [[Ashmolean Museum]] in [[Oxford]], is also on display.
The museum's collections were started in 1919. The museum has permanent collections and presents temporary exhibitions several times a year. There are also smaller exhibitions on local themes that are changed every month.<ref>[http://www.culture24.org.uk/se000170 Abingdon County Hall Museum], [[Culture24]], UK.</ref> [[The Monks' Map]] of the [[River Thames]] around Abingdon in the 16th century has been held at the town's Guildhall since 1907.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-13879363 |title=Monks' map was commissioned by Abingdon landowner | work=Oxford |publisher=[[BBC News]] | date=23 June 2011 |accessdate=5 February 2012}}</ref> A reproduction of the Anglo-Saxon [[Abingdon Sword]], discovered in the river at Abingdon and held by the [[Ashmolean Museum]] in [[Oxford]], has also been put on display.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ehive.com/account/4128/object/98085/Abingdon_Sword_replica | title=Abingdon Sword replica; Saxon; England, Oxfordshire, Abingdon-on-Thames |publisher=Abingdon County Hall Museum |work=[[eHive]], [[Vernon Systems]] | accessdate=8 July 2012}}</ref> In December 2011, with the help of [[British Motor Heritage]],<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cnbgu7Kx8s |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/-Cnbgu7Kx8s |archive-date=15 December 2021 |url-status=live| title=MGB returns to Abingdon | publisher=YouTube | date=1 March 2012 |accessdate=27 July 2012}}{{cbignore}}</ref> the last [[MGB Roadster]] sports car, which came off the production line in Abingdon in 1980 was lifted through a window 30 feet up, for display in the museum's main gallery.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP-RtYmp_uk |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/GP-RtYmp_uk |archive-date=15 December 2021 |url-status=live| title=Television news item | publisher=YouTube | date=1 December 2011 | accessdate=2 December 2011}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Some of the most important items in the museum are available online in an [[eHive]] database.

==Reopening==
From 2010 to 2012, the museum and building underwent a two-year restoration programme,<ref>[http://www.friendsofabingdon.org.uk/May2010newsletter.pdf Newsletter]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }},[http://www.friendsofabingdon.org.uk/ The Friends of Abingdon], ''Abingdon Museum'', page 2, May 2010.</ref> partly funded by the [[National Lottery (United Kingdom)|National Lottery]]. The museum reopened on 7 July 2012<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.heraldseries.co.uk/news/hsabingdonnews/9756602.Abingdon_s_County_Hall_Museum_to_reopen_next_month/|title=Abingdon's County Hall Museum to reopen next month | work=[[The Abingdon Herald]] | date=13 June 2012| accessdate=June 17, 2012 | author=Wilkinson, Ben |location=UK | page=1}}</ref> by [[Martha Howe-Douglas]], an actress in the [[BBC]] television series ''[[Horrible Histories (2009 TV series)|Horrible Histories]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.oxfordshireguardian.co.uk/2012/07/historic-day-for-museum-after-major-revamp/|title=Historic day for museum after major revamp | work=[[Oxfordshire Guardian]] | date=5 July 2012 | accessdate=July 8, 2012 | location=UK}}</ref> A new museum cafe is located in the basement.<ref>{{cite web| url= http://bunsinthebasement.com/ |title=Buns In The Basement | accessdate=July 27, 2012 | location=Abingdon County Hall Museum, Abingdon-on-Thames, UK}}</ref>


On 8 March 2013, the museum was officially reopened by the [[Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester|Duke of Gloucester]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/10275465.Duke_arrives_for_trio_of_openings/ | title=Duke arrives for trio of openings | newspaper=[[Oxford Mail]] | date=8 March 2013 | accessdate=8 March 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.tourismsoutheast.com/news-and-events/event-diary/2013/03/08/royal-opening-for-abingdon-museum/ | title=Royal Opening for Abingdon Museum | publisher= Tourism South East | date=8 March 2013 | accessdate=8 March 2013 }}</ref> A plaque was unveiled by the Duke at the museum.
From 2010 to 2012, the museum and building underwent a two-year restoration programme,<ref>[http://www.friendsofabingdon.org.uk/May2010newsletter.pdf Newsletter]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }},[http://www.friendsofabingdon.org.uk/ The Friends of Abingdon], ''Abingdon Museum'', page 2, May 2010.</ref> partly funded by the [[National Lottery (United Kingdom)|National Lottery]]. The museum was informally reopened to visitors by [[Martha Howe-Douglas]], an actress in the [[BBC]] television series ''[[Horrible Histories (2009 TV series)|Horrible Histories]]'',<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.oxfordshireguardian.co.uk/2012/07/historic-day-for-museum-after-major-revamp/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130421075038/http://www.oxfordshireguardian.co.uk/2012/07/historic-day-for-museum-after-major-revamp/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=21 April 2013 |title=Historic day for museum after major revamp |work=[[Oxfordshire Guardian]] |date=5 July 2012 |accessdate=8 July 2012 |location=UK }}</ref> in July 2012<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.heraldseries.co.uk/news/hsabingdonnews/9756602.Abingdon_s_County_Hall_Museum_to_reopen_next_month/|title=Abingdon's County Hall Museum to reopen next month | work=[[The Abingdon Herald]] | date=13 June 2012| accessdate=17 June 2012 | author=Wilkinson, Ben |location=UK | page=1}}</ref> and was officially reopened by the [[Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester|Duke of Gloucester]] on 8 March 2013.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/10275465.Duke_arrives_for_trio_of_openings/ | title=Duke arrives for trio of openings | newspaper=[[Oxford Mail]] | date=8 March 2013 | accessdate=8 March 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.tourismsoutheast.com/news-and-events/event-diary/2013/03/08/royal-opening-for-abingdon-museum/ | title=Royal Opening for Abingdon Museum | publisher=Tourism South East | date=8 March 2013 | accessdate=8 March 2013 | archive-date=29 September 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180929092613/http://www.tourismsoutheast.com/news-and-events/event-diary/2013/03/08/royal-opening-for-abingdon-museum/ | url-status=dead }}</ref> A new museum café was established in the basement.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bunsinthebasement.com/ |title=Buns in the Basement |accessdate=27 July 2012 |location=Abingdon County Hall Museum, Abingdon-on-Thames, UK |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130712023608/http://bunsinthebasement.com/ |archivedate=12 July 2013 }}</ref>


==References==
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==External links==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131104144128/http://www.abingdon.gov.uk/partners/abingdon-county-hall-museum Abingdon County Hall Museum website]
* [http://www.abingdonmuseumfriends.org.uk/ Abingdon Museum Friends website]
* {{Facebook|groups/abingdonmuseum}}
* {{Twitter|abingdonmuseum}}


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Abingdon County Hall Museum
View of the County Hall building that houses the museum.
Abingdon County Hall Museum is located in Oxfordshire
Abingdon County Hall Museum
Location within Oxfordshire
Established1678–1683 (building)
1919 (museum collection)
LocationAbingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Coordinates51°40′12″N 1°16′53″W / 51.67°N 1.2815°W / 51.67; -1.2815
TypeLocal museum
Collection sizeLocal history
OwnerAbingdon Town Council
Websitewww.abingdon.gov.uk/partners/abingdon-county-hall-museum
Listed Building – Grade I
Official nameCounty Hall and Market House
Designated19 January 1951
Reference no.1199601
Alternative view.

Abingdon County Hall Museum (also known as Abingdon Museum) is a local museum in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England. The museum is run by Abingdon Town Council and supported by Abingdon Museum Friends,[1] a registered charity.[2] It is a Grade I listed building.[3]

Building

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Internal view of the loggia.

The building was built as a county hall for Berkshire, Abingdon being Berkshire's county town; it was to serve as the principal sessions house and administrative home for the Justices of the county. The county hall was designed in the Baroque style by Christopher Kempster who trained with Sir Christopher Wren on St Paul's Cathedral.[4] It stands on large pilasters with a sheltered area beneath for use as a market or other municipal functions and was completed in 1683.[3][5]

Nikolaus Pevsner said of the building: "Of the free-standing town halls of England with open ground floors this is the grandest".[6] It housed a courtroom for the assizes[7] until 1867 when Abingdon ceded that role to Reading Assize Courts.[8][9]

Following the completion of a major restoration of the building, Queen Elizabeth II, visited the town hall, signed the visitor's book and unveiled a plaque in November 1956.[10]

Collections and exhibitions

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The museum's collections were started in 1919. The museum has permanent collections and presents temporary exhibitions several times a year. There are also smaller exhibitions on local themes that are changed every month.[11] The Monks' Map of the River Thames around Abingdon in the 16th century has been held at the town's Guildhall since 1907.[12] A reproduction of the Anglo-Saxon Abingdon Sword, discovered in the river at Abingdon and held by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, has also been put on display.[13] In December 2011, with the help of British Motor Heritage,[14] the last MGB Roadster sports car, which came off the production line in Abingdon in 1980 was lifted through a window 30 feet up, for display in the museum's main gallery.[15]

From 2010 to 2012, the museum and building underwent a two-year restoration programme,[16] partly funded by the National Lottery. The museum was informally reopened to visitors by Martha Howe-Douglas, an actress in the BBC television series Horrible Histories,[17] in July 2012[18] and was officially reopened by the Duke of Gloucester on 8 March 2013.[19][20] A new museum café was established in the basement.[21]

References

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  1. ^ "Abingdon Museum Friends". Abingdon-on-Thames, UK. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
  2. ^ "Abingdon Museum Friends, registered charity no. 1137089". Charity Commission for England and Wales.
  3. ^ a b Historic England. "County Hall and Market House, Abingdon (1199601)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  4. ^ "Abingdon County Hall: Information for Teachers" (PDF). English Heritage/Palladian Press. 2004.
  5. ^ "The County Hall & Museum Collection". Abingdon County Hall Museum. 3 November 2013. Archived from the original on 3 November 2013. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
  6. ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus (1966). "Abingdon County Hall Museum former website". Archived from the original on 4 November 2013. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
  7. ^ "Abingdon County Hall Museum". UK: English Heritage. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
  8. ^ "Abingdon". Berkshire History. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  9. ^ "County Hall". Abingdon Area Archaeological and Historical Society. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  10. ^ "Special - The Royal Visit 1956". British Pathe. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  11. ^ Abingdon County Hall Museum, Culture24, UK.
  12. ^ "Monks' map was commissioned by Abingdon landowner". Oxford. BBC News. 23 June 2011. Retrieved 5 February 2012.
  13. ^ "Abingdon Sword replica; Saxon; England, Oxfordshire, Abingdon-on-Thames". eHive, Vernon Systems. Abingdon County Hall Museum. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
  14. ^ "MGB returns to Abingdon". YouTube. 1 March 2012. Archived from the original on 15 December 2021. Retrieved 27 July 2012.
  15. ^ "Television news item". YouTube. 1 December 2011. Archived from the original on 15 December 2021. Retrieved 2 December 2011.
  16. ^ Newsletter[permanent dead link‍],The Friends of Abingdon, Abingdon Museum, page 2, May 2010.
  17. ^ "Historic day for museum after major revamp". Oxfordshire Guardian. UK. 5 July 2012. Archived from the original on 21 April 2013. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
  18. ^ Wilkinson, Ben (13 June 2012). "Abingdon's County Hall Museum to reopen next month". The Abingdon Herald. UK. p. 1. Retrieved 17 June 2012.
  19. ^ "Duke arrives for trio of openings". Oxford Mail. 8 March 2013. Retrieved 8 March 2013.
  20. ^ "Royal Opening for Abingdon Museum". Tourism South East. 8 March 2013. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 8 March 2013.
  21. ^ "Buns in the Basement". Abingdon County Hall Museum, Abingdon-on-Thames, UK. Archived from the original on 12 July 2013. Retrieved 27 July 2012.
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