The current hall was commissioned to replace a smaller hall found on High Street which was built in 1830. The former hall was constructed on land owned by
The Earl of Aylesford and the Wise family at a cost of £1,900. Two of the building's most notable features are its
clock tower on the southern end of the building and the
statue of Queen Victoria outside it. The statue, designed by
Albert Toft, was erected in 1902 and cost £1,500 to create, and was allegedly moved slightly by a German bomb on 14 November 1940 during
The Blitz. After defeating
Sugar Ray Robinson to win the world
middleweight boxing title championship on 10 July 1951, the locally-born boxer,
Randolph Turpin, waved to the crowd from the town hall balcony. The town hall was the headquarters the
municipal borough of Leamington but ceased to be local seat of government on the formation of
Warwick District in 1974. Since 2002 it has been the headquarters of Royal Leamington Spa
Town Council. The tall clock tower, ==Internal features==