Jackson Hall, Cardiff

Jackson Hall is a Grade II listed building on Westgate Street, in central Cardiff. It was designed by John Prichard and George Robinson and built in 1878.[1][2][3] It stands adjacent to the Cardiff and Country Club. Behind Jackson Hall is the Millennium Stadium.

Jackson Hall
"Striking piece of High Victorian Gothic polychromy"
TypeSports club
LocationCardiff
Coordinates51°28′45″N 3°10′51″W
Built1878
ArchitectGeorge Robinson
Architectural style(s)Gothic Revival
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameJackson Hall
Designated19 May 1975
Reference no.13827
Location of Jackson Hall in Cardiff

The hall was opened as the Racquets and Fives Club hall as a home for players of racquets, squash and lawn tennis and fives at a cost of £2,300. The cost was met by the Bute Estate under the guidance of John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute.[1]

The hall was used as Cardiff's Juvenile Employment Bureau until 1967 and subsequently as a polling station, and office for employment benefit registrants. Demolition of the hall and its replacement by the re-siting of the Ebenezer Welsh Congregational Church in Charles Street was vetoed in 1975 by John Morris, the Secretary of State for Wales, and it was subsequently listed Grade II for its architectural merit, as was the Ebenezer Congregational Church.[4][5] A 99-year lease on the hall was sold to the Barry firm Hamard Catering Ltd. in October 1978, and it subsequently re-opened as Jackson's, a health club.[4] The hall was branch of Yates's Wine Lodge for several years until 2007, when it became the home of the Welsh Rugby Union gift shop.[6]

References
  1. Hignell 2017, p. 44.
  2. coflein NPRN: 31804 RCAHMW: Coflein database
  3. "Cof Cymru – National Historic Assets of Wales – Full Report for Listed Buildings – Jackson Hall". Cadw – Cof Cymru.
  4. Hignell 2017, p. 191.
  5. "Cof Cymru – National Historic Assets of Wales – Full Report for Listed Buildings – Ebeneser Chapel (URC)". Cadw – Cof Cymru.
  6. Hignell 2017, p. 259.
  • Hignell, Andrew (2017). Always Amongst Friends: The Cardiff and County Club 1866–2016. Cardiff: Welsh Academic Press. ISBN 978-1-86-057129-9.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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