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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]
Shire Hall is a former judicial facility at Mount Folly Square in Bodmin, Cornwall. It was the main courthouse in Cornwall from 1838 to 1988. It was the main courthouse in Cornwall from 1838 to 1988. It is a Grade II* listed building .
A shire hall, home to the county court and other civic functions, stood on the north side of what is now Market Square in the 1280s. [1] In the 1580s, the decision was made to rebuild the shire hall, on a new site, [1] but this was not completed until 1607, probably due to difficulties raising the money needed. [1]
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]
The courtroom in the shire hall. The first shire hall in Presteigne was established on the corner of the High Street in 1542. [2] One of the most notorious cases heard in the first shire court was the trial of Mary Morgan who, in 1805, was convicted and hanged for killing her newborn child.
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A county hall or shire hall is a common name given to a building that houses the seat of local government for a county. The location of the county hall has usually denoted the county town . In the case of Surrey , England, when county boundaries changed the county hall remained in Kingston upon Thames . [ 1 ]