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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]
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]
Until the early 1990s, criminal court hearings were held in the old Shire Hall. [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.
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 ...
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The new council established its offices at the Shirehall [10] but, in the early 1950s, civic leaders decided to relocate to a building at No. 4 London Street, which then became Swaffham Town Hall. [ 11 ]
A video filmed in front of Columbia's historic courthouse elicited a firestorm of criticism and the removal of the Jason Aldean video.
Released on YouTube on Friday, the video for the song, “Try That in a Small Town,” features Aldean and his band performing in front of the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, the same site ...