page_title: Deddington
section_title: Public buildings and administration
hierarchical_section_title: Deddington / Public buildings and administration
caption_attribution_description: English: Public library, High Street, Deddington, Oxfordshire, seen from the west. Originally a private house. Converted into a prison and courthouse in the 19th century.
context_page_description: Deddington is a civil parish and small town in Oxfordshire about 6 miles south of Banbury. The parish includes two hamlets: Clifton and Hempton. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 2,146.
  Deddington is a small settlement but has a commercial centre including a market place. It has been a market town probably since the 12th century. One of the Hundred Rolls of King Edward I from 1275–76 records Deddington as a borough. It has a town hall and its football team is called Deddington Town FC.
context_section_description: Deddington Town Hall was built in Market Place early in the 17th century, possibly in 1611. It was rebuilt in 1806, possibly incorporating some of the original building. The ground floor is largely open, with arcades of brick jack arches carrying the first floor. The Grade II listing includes the Market place and Town Hall "rebuilt 1806, probably incorporating part of the former early-C17 structure".
  The Town Hall's first floor room was used both for vestry meetings and as a court house. The open ground floor was for market stalls. Three butchers each ran a stall there, and paid rent which was added to the town's charity for the poor.
  In 1858 the first floor was converted into a public library and reading room, and the ground floor arches were bricked up to form a station in which to keep the parish fire engine, which until then had been kept in the parish church.
  In 1854 a house at the junction of High Street and Horse Fair was converted into a prison designed by the architect JC Buckler. In 1874 a magistrates' room was added, designed by the architect William Wilkinson. The building is still called the Old Court House, but is now the local public library. At one time The Old Court House was the Town Hall and until 1952 the library was located in Forester's Hall, moving to this building in 1956. A local history report states that  the "barred window of the lock-up still exists".
  In 1883 a volunteer fire brigade was formed to run the parish fire engine. Under the Local Government Act 1894 a parish council was established. It replaced Deddington Vestry, and in 1896 it took over the fire brigade. A local history states that the fire station was initially at Goose Green but that the pump was moved under the town hall at a later date and then to Earls Lane; it was moved to the current Banbury Road location in 1952.   The new location is a purpose-built fire station; in 1952, it was operated by the Oxford County Fire Brigade but is now staffed by retained firefighters of the Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service.
caption: Deddington public library, which used to be the court house and prison
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