Carnatic Hall

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| name = Carnatic Hall

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| image = File:Carnatic House - University of Liverpool.jpg

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| caption = Carnatic Halls, built on the site in the 1960s

| locmapin = Merseyside

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| map_caption = Location in Merseyside

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| location = Near Mossley Hill, Liverpool

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| built = 1779

| built_for = Peter Baker

| demolished = 1964

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Carnatic Hall was an 18th-century mansion that was located in Mossley Hill, Liverpool, England.{{cite web|title=Allerton's Lost Mansions|url=http://streetsofliverpool.co.uk/allertons-lost-mansions/|website=Streets of Liverpool|accessdate=23 May 2017}}

The house was built in 1779 for slave trader Peter Baker, who served as Mayor of Liverpool in 1795. Originally on the site of Mossley Hall (home of the Ogden family) it was renamed Carnatic Hall by Baker after the French East Indiaman {{ship||Carnatic|1770 ship|2}}, which the privateer {{ship||Mentor|1778 ship|2}}, which Baker owned, had captured in October 1778. Carnatic was said to be the richest prize ever taken and brought safe into port by a Liverpool adventurer, being of the value of £135,000.{{cite book |last=Williams |first=Gomer |year=1897 |title=History of the Liverpool Privateers and Letters of Marque: With an Account of the Liverpool Slave Trade |publisher=W. Heinemann|pages=239–240}}{{cite web |last1=Farrer |first1=William and Brownbill J. |title='Townships: Garston', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 3 |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol3/pp120-128 |website=British History Online}} In 1891 the house burned down and the then owner, Walter Holland, had a hall built in the same style.{{cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=RSD/2/1 - Carnatic Hall - 1893 & 1950|url=https://sca-archives.liverpool.ac.uk/Record/101303|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=25 Aug 2020|website=University of Liverpool: Special Collections and Archives}}

In 1947, The University of Liverpool purchased Carnatic Hall as a home for the University of Liverpool Museum. In 1964 the mansion was demolished and replaced with student accommodation, the Carnatic Halls of Residence.{{cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=RSD/2 - Carnatic Site Halls of Residence - ca. 1956-1977|url=https://sca-archives.liverpool.ac.uk/Record/101156|archive-url=|archive-date=|accessdate=25 August 2020|website=University of Liverpool: Special Collections and Archives}} This consisted of six residences: McNair Hall, Salisbury Hall, Rankin Hall, Morton House, Lady Mountford Hall, and Dale Hall.

In 2018, it was announced that the Carnatic Student Village would be closing.{{cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Carnatic Student Village to close after June 2019|url=https://thetab.com/uk/liverpool/2018/04/20/carnatic-student-village-to-close-after-june-2019-48702|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200614044208/https://thetab.com/uk/liverpool/2018/04/20/carnatic-student-village-to-close-after-june-2019-48702 |archive-date=2020-06-14 |access-date=25 Aug 2020|website=The Tab}}