Banbridge Town Hall

The current building was commissioned to replace an earlier market hall which was demolished to facilitate the construction of "The Cut", an underpass on the main road between Newry and Belfast. The Marquess of Downshire agreed to pay for a new building and civic leaders selected a site, just to the northwest of the old building, which had been occupied by the Bunch of Grapes Inn. The new building was designed by Michael McGavigan in the neoclassical style, built in rough stone at a cost of £2,000 and was completed in 1834. It was arcaded on the ground floor, so that markets could be held, with an assembly hall on the first floor. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with three…