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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 ...
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. At the time, the museum was located in the Market Hall on Priory Street [19] The five-year project, supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, will see a new museum open at the Shire Hall by ...
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 ...
An Act for erecting a Shire Hall, Courts of Justice and other Buildings, for Public Purposes; and for providing suitable Accommodations for His Majesty's Justices of Assize, in and for the County of Hereford. Citation: 55 Geo. 3. c. ix: Dates; Royal assent: 23 March 1815: Text of statute as originally enacted
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]