BC - RECORDS OF BATH CITY COUNCIL AND BATH & NORTH EAST SOMERSET COUNCIL
- BC/13 - Bath as a Spa, Cultural and Tourist centre: records of Bath City Council and Bath & North East Somerset Council's responsibilities for culture, leisure and tourism
  - BC/13/2 - Bath City Council. Records relating to Bath Assembly Rooms

Reports and transcripts relating to the dispute between Bath City Council and The National Trust over the restoration of the Assembly Rooms, Bath

Reference Number: BC/13/2/7
Level of Description: Item
Title: Reports and transcripts relating to the dispute between Bath City Council and The National Trust over the restoration of the Assembly Rooms, Bath
Date: 1949-1963
Extent: Extent: 1 file
Description: With a detailed typed report providing an overview of the disagreement between Bath City Council, who wanted to rebuild the Assembly Rooms with alterations to enable them to diversify the use of the rooms, and the National Trust, who wanted to restore the rooms as they were before the bomb damage. The report names the anonymous donor who bought the Assembly Rooms and gave them to the National Trust as Ernest E. Cook (d. 1955). Bath Council were considering disclaiming their lease under the Landlord and Tenant (War Damages) Act of 1939 if the National Trust refused to allow them to alter the design of the building. Other papers include typed reports, some made on behalf of the Joint Corporate Property and Spa Committees, some of which recount Mr House's views on the subject. Mr House was the partner and son-in-law of the Architect Sir Richardson who was employed by the National Trust to oversee the restoration of the Assembly Rooms. Additional items include questions to Counsel, a lengthy snagging list dated 1963, legal enquiries, copies of letters relating to the dispute, a transcript of Spear versus the City of Plymouth (15 January 1952), and several offprints of an article on the chandeliers of William Parker, by A. J. Cockram (1953).