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Rhyl Town Hall

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in 1922, was acquired by Rhyl Town Council in 1978 and displayed in the town hall until it was relocated to the Albert Barnes Room at the miniature railway's central station in 2007. The town hall continued to serve as an events venue and became an approved location for marriages and civil
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The first municipal offices in Rhyl were established in the High Street in 1849. After they were appointed in 1852, the new improvement commissioners decided to procure more substantial offices on a site on the northwest side of Wellington Road: the new offices were designed by
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stone by a local contractor, J. Rhydwen Jones, at a cost of £6,000, and officially opened by Hughes, when he returned on 11 October 1876. The original design involved an asymmetrical main frontage of eight bays facing onto Wellington Road with the left hand bay topped with a
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and was completed in 1856. After this facility also proved inadequate, the commissioners decided to demolish the existing structure and to construct a new building on the same site.
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The building served as the headquarters of Rhyl Urban District Council for much of the 20th century but ceased to be local seat of government when the enlarged
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in 1906; the extension was topped with a mansard roof to form a pavilion thereby creating symmetry with the pavilion on the left.
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After significant population growth, largely associated with the seaside tourism industry, the area was advanced to the status of
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partnership ceremonies; the register office for North Denbighshire relocated to the town hall in May 2018.
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windows on both floors. Internally, the principal room was the main hall.
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window on the first floor and, above that, a tall clock tower with corner
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with the town hall as its headquarters in 1895. In 1897, the filmmaker,
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The Buildings of Wales, Clwyd, (Denbighshire and Flintshire)
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The foundation stone for the new building was laid by the
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Rhyl
53°19′11″N 3°29′29″W / 53.3198°N 3.4915°W / 53.3198; -3.4915
Gothic style
Listed Building
Rhyl Town Hall is located in Denbighshire
Welsh
Rhyl
Denbighshire
listed building
Thomas Mainwaring Penson
Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire
Barrow-in-Furness
Gothic style
Penmaenmawr
mansard roof
pavilion
traceried
turrets
spire
weather vane
mullioned
urban district
Arthur Cheetham
Hallie Quinn Brown
Carnegie library
Rhuddlan Borough Council
miniature
steam locomotive
Albert Barnes & Co

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