Yorkshire Gallery Reviews

This is well worth a visit,a brilliant piece of architecture!!

Lovely place to sit and have a drink, public toilets are tidy & clean also

Enjoying the chow down Sunday afternoon. What a fantastic place to relax and enjoy good food and drink

What an amazing place.even just to imagine what it must of beem like all them years ago....if walls could tell stories eh?!......

Some wonderful shops here - "Leaf", the vegan food store is a favourite!
Really good disability access too (several lifts to all floors & plenty of wheelchair accessible toilets) though wheelchair users may need a hand getting over the door sills of individual shops....

Tyne gin lane staff are a delight. 1 st visit but will not be the last. Thank you for a lovely evening

New stonework makes the place look cleaner + New water features & more seating that ever before!

A bit about the Piece Hall's heritage;

YORKSHIRE S MOST IMPORTANT SECULAR BUILDING
The Grade I listed Piece Hall, Halifax is a rare and precious thing, an architectural and cultural phenomenon which is absolutely unique. It is the sole survivor of the great eighteenth century northern cloth halls, a class of buildings which embodied the vital and dominant importance of the trade in hand woven textiles to the pre-industrial economy of the West Riding of Yorkshire, from the Middle Ages through to the early nineteenth century.
Dating from 1779, when it was built as a Cloth Hall for the trading of pieces of cloth (a 30 yard length of woven woollen fabric produced on a handloom), The Piece Hall was the most ambitious and prestigious of its type and now stands in splendid isolation as the only remaining example. It is one of Britain s most outstanding Georgian buildings.
It is impossible to overstate the scale and importance of this trade, not just to the history of Halifax and the West Riding, but to the nation as a whole over some 800 years between the twelfth and eighteenth centuries.
When it was built, The Piece Hall was a highly visible statement of the great wealth, pride and ambition of the cloth manufacturers. Although built for trade, it also embodied the most cultured sensitivities of the Enlightenment; these bluff northern manufacturers deliberately chose a design for their building which adapted the neo-classical orders of architecture derived originally from the Romans.
From its inception, The Piece Hall was a stunning combination of commerce and culture, an icon of hard business but also a broader statement about the history, the lives and the values of its surrounding community. This fascinating mix of purpose and idealism business, arts and people, continues to influence and drive The Piece Hall s role today. A direct link back over almost a quarter of a millenium of history.

I could spend all day here its so nice. You can shop until your hungry then sit down and watch the world go by with some food and a drink. Gin Lane does a beautiful hot chocolate

After a long period of time closed, and a beautiful restoration, it needs to get the buzz back. Too many empty units that were once filled with quirky shops, antique dealers and booksellers. You can only sell so many scented candles.

Let's see the open market on the square, some proper local market stalls that ordinary folk might want to shop at weekly, and soul put back in.

You can spend a long time here doing absolutely nothing. The kids will enjoy the space for running around and you might find something you like in one of the independent shops. Library next door and it's slap bang in the middle of Halifax - love it!
Tip to the managers of this place : if there was a decent fish and chip shop in here, they'd absolutely rake it in.

Great place to visit, good variety of shops and a few bars & restaurants which is always a bonus

Although the shops are small it's well worth a look

Really good looking place and nice boutique and antique shops

Nice cool morning good eating a box breakfast from Le Munch Bunch. Good way to start the week

Beautiful building and good evening bars. Well lit at night

The North's very own Covent Garden, just needs more of the retailers to fill up the available units.

It's so beautiful and has a wide range of shops to visit! Love it!

Friendly shops, good food and drink and set in a unique Grade 1 listed building.

An absolute fab place full of history and ace Christmas shops

We had a great time doing last minute Christmas shopping in the lovely craft shops on this wonderful historic site

The newly renovated Piece Hall is a lot cleaner in appearance and the shops are a lot bigger inside. The 'Cobble Sets' have gone so walking around is a lot easier.

Not been since I was a kid. The renovations have been done excellently. Love it.

Really nice place lots of people things to do, nice shops building up there well worth a visit

Well worth a visit for the shops, bars, or just the architecture.

Lovely place, quiet relaxing with small shops. Definitely worth visiting if in Halifax.

Beautiful place. Lovely place to spend an afternoon in the sun.

Historic beauty, varied shops, peaceful setting, lots to watch... love it

The Piece Hall is a lovely place to spend a couple of hours on a sunny afternoon. There is a wide range of reasonably priced boutique shops dotted around the various mezzanines. The little ice cream parlor does fantastic set of delicious and tempting flavours, all at a price much lower than I expected - they even had soy milk for my wife's cup of tea. It would be even better if there were a few more shops filling out the vacant units, but nevertheless it is still able to take up an enjoyable portion of your day. The court yard has recently been refurbished and recobbled and fits lovelyly with the graded original architecture. On a winter's afternoon the low sun can make for some very dramatic shadows and contrasts in and around the cloisters - I couldn't stop myself taking photos of the place.

To say they spent 19.million just looks clean. and half of the shops are empty.

Came across this little restaurant after not liking where we originally planned on eating and were very impressed good food and not expensive with a try!!

Very nice setting with well thought out space in centre.

Always plenty to see here, love the shops and you can't beat the setting

Love this place it's the highlight of Halifax especially when the lights are on as it's going dark.

Great place, nice shops and a very good shopping experience.

Lovely old building in the heart of Halifax with bars and outside seating lovely when it's sunny

Beautiful and interesting building, some of the units are empty

Some great places to eat and drink, a nice atmosphere and always something going on. A bit more expensive than most places in Halifax, but worth it

Many years since I last visited. Beautiful and sparkling but not the place I remember. Gone are the dark stones and stone flags have been replaced by new granite. At first glance it is no longer a cloth hall. I was disappointed.

It's My first visit, I think it's safe to say that I'll be back

Great place for historic past could do with a few more signs to inform people what is inside

Very nice place to visit if only for a couple of hours

Great place, fantastic architecture, good selection of shops. Well worth a visit.

I was here about 35 year ago if not more, wow it's changed alot. It was alot quieter today.

Lovely place .lots of quirky shops and nice coffee houses.

Fantastic building, architecture, atmosphere and a great amphitheatre.

Beautiful place but a tad touristy. A few nice cafes in there though.

Altho the actual building is a very impressive site as yet quite a few of the shops are still empty and nothing much is happening! Certainly something to keep an eye on for the future

Absolutely wonderful refurbishment. Great shops and places to eat.

It's so refreshing to find independent shop's, there are many little individual shops from Sweet's to book stores. If you want the mainstream shops it's a very short walk to get to them from the independent shop's, and you can also find an indoor market too. I wish there were many more town centres like Halifax. If you want to find Xmas presents that are not mass produced then go to Halifax, you will find inspiration from the independent shop's that are all around The piece hall. There are so many different types, it's just a great place to go to do your shopping.

Lovely transformation and money well spent although not sure about all the fountains

Beautifully restored, and a fantastic range of small, individual shops and cafes. Well worth a visit!!!

A very expensive white elephant that's hemorrhaging money.

Very good location to have multiple events. Went for Chow Down it was brilliant and there is always more stores and a variety of food and bands playing. Also the History about Halifax with the different rooms on different levels is interesting. With the variety of shops I think that Halifax is on its way to becoming a city and an international Tourist Attraction!

Excellent refurbishment of a truely historical site.....well done Halifax....sadly marred by the intimidating youth's on cycles that security were unable to control...although they tried..

It's the making of Halifax. A lovely reason to visit Halifax. Hope to see more little shops open next time.

I recommend 'Al's Emporium' for anyone interested in antique and retro stuff.

A wonderful piazza surrounded by elegant former textile merchants dealing houses. Arts, crafts, things for the home and for the mind, food and drink too, did I mention there's a gin bar?