History
The original building was designed by the obscure Elijah Hoole in vicarage-gothic style. The building was designated a Grade II listed building in 1973.
The radical idea behind Toynbee Hall that became the basis for settlement houses throughout England and the United States (e.g. Hull House) was that graduates would undertake social work in the deprived areas of towns and cities and learn something of what it was like to experience poverty — in the words of Samuel Barnett, 'to learn as much as to teach; to receive as much as to give'.
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