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Talgarth Town Hall

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Service wings, which had been added to the east side of the building, were remodelled in 1994, and the brass war memorial plaque, which had been buried under the stone war memorial in Bronllys Road was recovered and returned to the town hall in 2016. Another plaque, intended to commemorate the gold
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In the mid-1870s, a group of local landowners led by Francis William Alexander Roche, whose seat was at Tregunter Park and who had led various initiatives to promote Talgarth as a market town, decided to commission a market hall for the town. The site they selected was made available by
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at a cost of £700 and was completed in 1878. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with three bays facing onto the corner of Hay Road and The Bank; there was a round headed opening with
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in the gable above. The structure was surmounted by a quarter-hipped roof. Internally, the principal rooms were the market hall on the ground floor and the assembly room on the first floor.
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in the area, during which he encouraged farmers to check the level of radioactivity in their cattle. Following implementation of the
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gate in the central bay on the ground floor, three segmental headed windows with voussoirs on the first floor and a central
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The foundation stone for the new building was laid by Roche on 17 July 1877. It was designed by Thomas Lawrence Lewis of
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The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire From the Earliest Times to the Present Day
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In August 1958, the town hall was the venue for a lecture given by the
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Talgarth
51°59′45″N 3°13′56″W / 51.9958°N 3.2321°W / 51.9958; -3.2321
Neoclassical style
Listed Building
Talgarth Town Hall is located in Powys
Welsh
Talgarth
Powys
Wales
listed building
Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham
Swansea
neoclassical style
Hay-on-Wye
rubble masonry
voussoirs
wrought iron
oculus
turret
ogee
dome
finial
Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria
Local Government Act 1894
First World War
nuclear physicist
John H. Fremlin
Strontium-90
Local Government Act 1972

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