Description: The exterior front of Buxton Town Hall, The Slopes, Buxton, c 1935. The Town Hall was designed by W Pollard of Manchester, and built 1887-88 from stone quarried at Nithen Quarry, Corbar. On the Market Place aspect of the building is a clock was given by the Duke of Devonshire's tenants in memory of the assassination of Lord Frederick Cavendish in Dublin 1882.