Lurgan Town Hall

Following their election in 1855, the new town commissioners initiated various new buildings in the town, including a police barracks, a workhouse and a new courthouse as well as a new town hall; these developments were a direct challenge to the lord of the manor, the 2nd Lord Lurgan, who had stifled progress in the area for many years. The new building was designed by William Raffles Brown in the Italianate style, built in rubble masonry and red brick at a cost of £2,300 and was completed in 1868. The design involved a broadly symmetrical main frontage with nine bays facing onto Union Street; the end bays, which were flanked by full-height pilasters, featured round headed doorways accessed…