Date:1794 - 1795 (c.)
Description:Design for a new Shire Hall on Market Square. In 1790 a decision was made to replace the old Elizabethan Shire Hall, which was in a poor state of repair. Several plans were submitted including ones by Samuel Wyatt, who was then working on Shugborough Hall, and John Nash, the favourite architect of the Prince Regent. The chosen design for the present hall was by John Harvey, who worked as Wyatt's assistant in London. The building was erected between 1795 - 98 and was the third of its kind on approximately the same site. Building began behind the old Shire Hall so that once the old building was demolished the new one would face onto a large square. Photograph donated by Stafford Historical and Civic Society, who retain copyright ownership.
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There has been a shire building in Stafford since the 1280s, used as a meeting place ...
Stafford possessed a market as early as 1206, when Edward the Elder passed a law ...
Alderman John Marson was Mayor of Stafford in 1848. John Marson also established ...
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At the end of the First World War, when the New Zealand Rifle Brigade left the military ...
Stafford had held a weekly market since the Middle Ages. In 1853 a covered market ...
The Market Square was laid out with flower beds, trees and seating in 1953 to celebrate ...
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Design for a new Shire Hall on Market Square. In 1790 a decision was made to replace the old Elizabethan ...
'Design proposed for a Town Hall &c. at Stafford.' Elevation and plan showing a central block with ...
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Image courtesy of: Staffordshire County Records Office
Donor ref:County Record Office No., D4080/3/30, img: 1817 (18/2264)
Source: Staffordshire Museum Service
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