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St Davids City Hall

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above. The inner bays of the wings featured doorways on the ground floor and narrow casement windows on the first floor, while the end bays were fenestrated by segmental headed casement windows with hood moulds on the ground floor and by bi-partite casement windows on the first floor. Internally, the
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Tucked in between the last page and the cover of the Museum Scrap Book in the Parish Chest is a copy memorandum written in pencil which states that David Griffiths, Trellwyd (the Treliwyd of the locals) promised to grant the Trustees (yet to be appointed) a lease for the term of ninety-nine years
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in April 1982, was erected on the right of the central section of the main frontage of the building following the visits. An extensive programme of works, which included the installation of a new porch and a new colour on the roughcast finish, was completed in 2002.
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and was completed in 1866. It was a rectangular building, fenestrated on both sides by a series of arched windows, with a small porch on the north side. The borough council, which had not met for many years, was abolished under the
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The first municipal building in St Davids was made possible by a local land owner, David Griffiths, who agreed to grant a 99-year lease over a site in New Street for a concert and lecture hall. The building was designed in the
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principal rooms were the main hall, which was 53.5 feet (16.3 m) long and 32 feet (9.8 m) wide, the memorial hall and the library. The memorial hall became the meeting place of St Davids City Council.
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The design involved a symmetrical main frontage of seven bays facing onto the High Street. The central section of three bays, which was slightly projected forward, featured a double doorway with a rectangular
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The first building went on serve as a school and then as a cinema before becoming St Michael's Catholic Church in 1962.
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from 29 September 1866 on a plot of ground with the buildings now in course of erection
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Municipal Corporations Act 1883 (46 & 46 Vict. Ch. 18)
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St Davids
51°52′51″N 5°15′51″W / 51.8807°N 5.2643°W / 51.8807; -5.2643
Italianate style
St Davids City Hall is located in Pembrokeshire
Welsh
St Davids
Pembrokeshire
Wales

vernacular style
rubble masonry
Municipal Corporations Act 1883
First World War
Haverfordwest
Italianate style
roughcast
fanlight
pilasters
entablature
cornice
casement windows
hood moulds
Venetian window
pediment
Prince
Princess of Wales
Queen Elizabeth II
Duke of Edinburgh
Glynn Davies

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