Town Hall Upper Cross Street Larne Co Antrim Bt40 1sz

The town hall was financed by a donation by the Ulster-Scots merchant, Charles McGarel. The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage with eleven bays facing onto Upper Cross Street with the left hand end bay projected forward as a pavilion; the central bay featured a four-stage clock tower with an arched doorway flanked by colonettes in the first stage, a lancet window in the second stage, an oculus in the third stage and a belfry with a clock and a pyramidal roof in the fourth stage. Internally, the principal rooms were the assembly hall, known as the "McGarel Hall", in the left hand section, the public reading room on the ground floor of the right hand section and the library and…