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The story of Britain's market halls-built to replace traditional
open-air markets throughout England, Wales, and Scotland-is a tale
of exuberant architecture, civic pride, and attempts at social
engineering. This book is the first history of the market hall, an
immensely important building type that revolutionized the way
Britons obtained their consumer goods. James Schmiechen and Kenneth
Carls investigate the economic, cultural, political, and social
forces that led to the construction of several hundred market
buildings in the two centuries after 1750. The market hall was
frequently vast in scale, revolutionary in plan, and elaborately
ornamented-indeed, it was often the most important architectural
statement a proud town might make. Drawing on a wide range of
contemporary records, the authors show how municipal authorities
used market buildings to improve the supply and distribution of
food, convey social ideals, control social and economic behavior,
and declare a town's virtues. For the Victorians, Schmiechen and
Carls argue, the enormous investment of energy, seriousness, and
funding in the market hall reflected a belief that architecture was
a primary agent of social reform and improvement. Generously
illustrated with more than 180 drawings and photographs, this book
also includes a Gazetteer with information about some 300 specific
market buildings. Published with assistance from the Annie Burr
Lewis Fund
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