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Kidwelly Town Hall

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on the ground floor, three arched windows with roundels in the heads on the first floor and two arched windows with roundels in the heads on the second floor. There was a date stone above the entrance. The right-hand bay contained three arched windows on the ground floor, three arched windows with
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under a large arch in the gable above. The side elevation, with four bays extending along Causeway Street, was fenestrated by arched windows on the ground floor and by square-headed windows on the first floor. Internally, the principal rooms were a market hall and some prison cells on the ground
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was formed in 1974. It subsequently served as the home of the Kidwelly Library until the library service moved to Bridge Street in 2002. Since then the building has remained vacant and deteriorating and, in June 2011, it was placed on the annual catalogue of buildings at risk published by
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The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage of two bays facing onto Lady Street. The left-hand bay, which formed an entrance tower, featured an arched doorway with an
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during which her husband, the local solicitor, Harold Greenwood, was accused of murdering her by administering
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The building was designed by a former mayor of the borough, Thomas William Angel Evans, in the
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The borough council, which met in the town hall, was reformed under the
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The building was the location for the inquest, in June 1920, into the
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sought purchasers who would develop the building in October 2019.
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floor and an assembly room and a reading room on the first floor.
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The building was used again as a recruiting station during the
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Municipal Corporations Act 1883 (46 & 46 Vict. Ch. 18)
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Kidwelly
51°44′11″N 4°18′25″W / 51.7363°N 4.3069°W / 51.7363; -4.3069
Gothic Revival style
Listed Building
Kidwelly Town Hall is located in Carmarthenshire
Welsh
Kidwelly
Carmarthenshire
Wales
listed building
Gothic Revival style
rubble masonry
archivolt
hood mould
oculus
plate tracery
Municipal Corporations Act 1883
Second Boer War
First World War
death of Mabel Greenwood
arsenic
Second World War
Llanelli District Council
Save Britain's Heritage
Carmarthenshire County Council



Cadw

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