Derby Assembly Rooms

Derby Assembly Rooms
Derby Assembly Rooms in 2013
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General information
StatusDisused
Architectural styleBrutalist
LocationDerby, England
Coordinates52°55′25″N 1°28′35″W / 52.9237°N 1.4764°W / 52.9237; -1.4764
Opening1977
Closed2014
OwnerDerby City Council
Design and construction
Architect(s)Hugh Casson/Neville Conder

The Derby Assembly Rooms was an events venue in the English city of Derby. There have been three iterations of the Derby Assembly Rooms, with the last two on the same site. The first was opened in 1714 in Full Street, but soon proved inadequate. The second was built in 1763 on Market Place and was used until it was damaged by a fire in 1963. The third was built in 1977 and used until it too was damaged in a fire in 2014.[1][2][3][4]

Both of the last two buildings still exist, at least in part. The façade of the 1763 building was dismantled and rebuilt as part of the vintage street scene at the National Tramway Museum in Crich, Derbyshire. The 1977 building still stands, albeit unused since 2014, but has an uncertain future.[2][5]

  1. ^ "Assembly Room". Discover Derby. Archived from the original on 28 February 2024. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
  2. ^ a b "The Derby Assembly Rooms". Google Arts & Culture. Derbyshire Records Office. Archived from the original on 28 February 2024. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
  3. ^ Hawley, Zena (21 January 2021). "This is the latest on what could happen to the Assembly Rooms". Derby Telegraph. Archived from the original on 17 May 2022. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  4. ^ "Derby Assembly Rooms and the brutalism battle". The Economist. 31 October 2020. Archived from the original on 7 June 2022. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
  5. ^ Historic England (13 April 2023). "Derby Assembly Rooms, including adjoining multi-storey car park, Market Place, Derby, DE1 3AF (Certificate of Immunity from Listing) (1475117)". National Heritage List for England. Archived from the original on 17 April 2023. Retrieved 17 April 2023.