Mansion House, Louth

This is the skylight of a Georgian building that has been extensively renovated to a high standard and converted into a tea-room and restaurant. The building features in William Brown's Panorama of Louth http://www.louthmuseum.org.uk/galleries/panorama_gallery/louth_museum_panorama_gallery.html painted in the 1840s from sketches made from the top of St James's Church spire (the first or second highest parish church spire in the UK). The Panorama was displayed in the Mansion House in 1847 and again in 1856, when Browna added the newly built Town Hall and the railway. 

The Mansion House has been a Police station, a library, and, for a few years until it became dangerous - not least from the risk of the skylight falling in, a location for the weekly rehearsals of Louth Male Voice Choir. 

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