Glamorgan County Hall, Cathays Park, Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales

Locations of Works

Place of siting for Navigation and Mining
1908 (Presumed)
'The main entrance front (of Glamorgan County Hall) consists of five bays of coupled columns flanked on either side by pavilions, adjoining which are gateways leading to the side entrances and the rear portion of the site. Axial with the pavilions are sculpture groups by [...] Mr. Albert Hodge, symbolical of Navigation and Mining, these are placed on podiums which enclose the stylobate extending the whole width of the front.'

Events

Associated with Competition to design and build Glamorgan County Hall (Cardiff), 1908
1908

Business or Institutional

Location of offices built by E. Turner and Sons Limited, Cardiff
1908 (Presumed)
E. Turner and Sons Limited constructed Glamorgan County Hall. The building was designed by Messrs. E. Vincent Harris and Moodie, London.

Studio or Residential

Workplace for George Alexander
1908 (Presumed)
George Alexander did the carving of all the oak furniture in the Council Chamber of the County Hall. Presume this is the sculptor of this name who was a member of the RBS because the society was closely involved with projects in Cardiff at this date

Workplace for Albert Hemstock Hodge
1908 (Presumed)
1921 'The Council Chamber...the principal apartment in the building, is faced with Portland Stone; it has a stone screen behind the Chairman's dias connecting the two voting lobbies, arranged with this screen are two pedestals supporting figures by the late Mr. Albert Hodge, symbolical of a Druid and a Bard...'

Sources

Superb Buildings erected by E. Turner and Sons, Ltd, Builders and Contractors, Penarth Road, Cardiff
April 1929
p.18 Includes black and white photograph of the building