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Shire Hall is an 18th-century courthouse in Dorchester, Dorset. The building was the centre of law, order and government, and served as the county hall for Dorset until 1955. It has been Grade I listed since 1950. [1] In 2018, the hall opened as the Shire Hall Historic Courthouse Museum. [2]
While the term shire roughly translates as county, and forms the root word of the title of sheriff, which in the American colonies was a county official, an English shire roughly corresponded in population to an American colony compared with an American county, and the shire court compared more similarly in form and function to an American ...
The Shire Hall is a public building in Stafford, England, completed in 1798 to a design by John Harvey. [1] [2] Formerly a courthouse, it housed an art gallery which closed to the public in July 2017. [3] [4] The court rooms and cells are preserved. [1]
However, as the number of court cases in Stafford grew, it became necessary to commission a more modern courthouse for both Crown Court hearings and County Court hearings. The site selected by the Lord Chancellor's Department , on the east side of Victoria Square, had been occupied by an old cattle market.
The museum is housed in a former Victorian courtroom, prison, and police station and is therefore a historic site where an individual could be arrested, tried, sentenced and executed. The courtrooms date back to the 14th century and the gaol to at least 1449. The building is a Grade II* listed building and the museum is a registered charity. [1 ...
The Canton courthouse, built in the mid 1850s, will now house a digital museum of Madison County and a learning and conference center. Madison County historic courthouse to be digital museum ...
The Shire Hall is owned by Monmouthshire County Council. It is currently used as a tourist information centre and as the offices for Monmouth Town Council, and parts are open to the public. Following the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, the council announced that the Shire Hall would be the new location for the Monmouth Museum.
The Shire Hall, which gradually became known as the Sessions House, [15] remained in judicial use until 2011 when it closed, as part of central government measures to close 93 magistrates' courts across England and Wales. [16] The building was subsequently acquired by City of Ely Council in 2013 to serve as its offices and meeting place. [17]