Lampeter Town Hall

The first town hall in Lampeter, which was commissioned by the lord of the manor and partner in Harford Bank of Bristol, Richard Hart Davis, was designed by Peter Frederick Robinson and completed in 1818. Davis got into financial difficulty in 1819 and sold his estate, which included the town hall, to his son-in-law, John Scandrett Harford, of Blaise Castle in 1820. The new building was designed by Robert Jewell Withers in the Queen Anne Revival style, built in grey brick with red brick quoins at a cost of £4,000 and was completed in 1881. Following the implementation of the Local Government Act 1888, which established county councils in every county, it became necessary to establish a…