Georgian

Timeline

Townhalls

Yield Hall

Greyfriars

Hospitium

New Town Hall

Waterhouse Town Hall

Civic Offices

New Town Hall

By the Eighteenth Century the Town Hall, still in the upper storey of the Abbey Hospitium, was beginning to become dangerous to use. In 1785 the old hall was demolished and a new one, designed by one of the towns Aldermen, Charles Poulton, was built. The new hall had an assembly room, in the classical style, and a council chamber next door, with portraits of some of the people who had improved the town.