Bishop's Castle Town Hall

The first municipal building in the town was a medieval town hall at the top of the High Street, in existence in the 16th century. It had two large windows and a clock tower with a bell and it was equipped with a lock-up for petty criminals. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with a single bay facing south down the High Street; the basement, which was rusticated, featured two oculi; on the ground floor there was a large round headed opening with an architrave and a keystone and, on the first floor, there was a Venetian window. The corners were decorated with quoins and the whole structure was surmounted by a pediment. The building stretched back five bays and the side…