Website:http://www.oldspitalfieldsmarket.com (Website)
Description:The newly restored Old Spitalfields Market is a wonderful tapestry of the Arts and Crafts-inspired old glass roofed Victorian Market Hall (built 1876) - situated around the listed 18th Century Horner building city block that creates a horseshoe whilst the hi-tech restaurant and light pavilion completes the square. Small shops and sole traders retail here within sympathetically restored shop fronts with brass Davy lamps along side familiar restaurant names like La Tasca and Crepeaffaire. The 150+ stalls of the market (Royal Charter of 1682) continue to trade Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays. The market hall comprises five main spans, muscular primary riveted girders, supported by a grid of cast-iron columns, secondary triangulated trusses, creating pitched glass timber tents over the market space. Five original entrances still exist. The market can be sub-tropical when bathed in sunshine while dark, bleak and Victorian in winter.
Jurisdictions::Tower Hamlets
