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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]
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 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 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.
Swaffham Town Hall is a judicial building in Whitecross Road in Swaffham, a town in Norfolk, in England. The building, which is now in residential use, ...
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.
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 .