The Town Hall was a local government building located in St Nicholas Square, Newcastle upon Tyne.

[3] However, by the early 1850s, the Corn Market Company was in financial difficulty, and the directors, who did not have adequate funds to maintain the building properly, agreed to hand over the site to Newcastle upon Tyne Corporation for development.

[5] The design, which was undertaken by John Johnstone in the Italian neoclassical style,[6] involved incorporating the corn exchange into the central section of the building as an assembly hall capable of accommodating 3,000 people: a large concert organ was acquired at that time.

[11][12] By the middle of the 20th century condition of the town hall had deteriorated to such an extent that the council was forced to relocate to modern facilities at Newcastle Civic Centre in Barras Bridge in November 1968.

[13] A "winter zoo" involving lions, tigers, monkeys, exotic birds and snakes continued to be held in the building in the late 1960s[14][15] but, ultimately, the town hall had to be demolished in 1973.