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Shire Hall, Haverfordwest

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47: 185: 192: 307:: internal alterations were carried out to a design by Arthur Thomas to create a council chamber 1901. The shire hall was regularly used for concerts and other public performances; the Haverfordwest Male Voice Choir performed their first concert in the building in 1896. It was also the venue, in March 1950, for the trial of the 333:
A developer, Red Dragon Developments, acquired a 999-year lease on the shire hall, in February 2010, and carried out an extensive programme of refurbishment works. The works included the installation of a lift, the re-roofing of the building and the re-facing of the front elevation with lime plaster
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finish and was completed in 1837. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with five bays facing onto the High Street; the central section of three bays, which slightly projected forward, was fenestrated with round headed windows on the ground floor and square headed sash windows on the first
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The shire hall continued to host meetings of the county council until it was abolished in 1974 and continued to host hearings in the courthouse until it closed in June 2003. The new
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as its preferred bidder: the decision led to protests led by the Haverfordwest Civic Society who did not want to see the building converted into a
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farmer, Albert Jenkins, who was found guilty of murdering his landlord, William Llewellyn, and subsequently executed by hanging.
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pediments on the first floor and a modillioned cornice above. Internally, the principal room was the courtroom.
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who had been involved in an incident at the Colby Scott Turnpike Gate. Following the implementation of the
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In the early 1840s, the building was the venue for the trial of one of the leaders of the
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The building was commissioned by the justices as accommodation for the regular
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floor. The windows in the central section were flanked by full height
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For the headquarters of the modern Pembrokeshire County Council, see
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above. The end bays featured round headed doors with
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County Hall, Haverfordwest

Haverfordwest
51°48′06″N 4°58′07″W / 51.8016°N 4.9686°W / 51.8016; -4.9686
William Owen
Neoclassical style
Listed Building
Shire Hall, Haverfordwest is located in Pembrokeshire
Welsh
Haverfordwest
Pembrokeshire
Pembrokeshire County Council
listed building
assizes
Quaker meeting House
William Owen
neoclassical style
stucco
Ionic order
pilasters
entablature
modillioned
pediment
fanlights
consoled
Rebecca Riots
Local Government Act 1888
Pembrokeshire County Council
Rosemarket
unitary authority

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