Country Wales Structural system stone Town or city Ruthin | Completed 1863 Opened 1863 Construction started 1837 | |
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Ruthin Town Hall is a Victorian building in Market Street, Ruthin, Denbighshire, which was Grade II Listed by Cadw on 12 April 1973 (Cadw Building ID: 875).
Map of Ruthin Town Hall, Ruthin, UK
The original town hall was located on St Peter's Square, built in 1663 from stones taken from the ruined chancel of St Peter’s Church. The building was demolished in 1863. The Corporation (council) met over the market hall approx where Peers Memorial Clock located, with magistrates sharing the same upper level and market traders using the ground floor. The demolition of the Bull Inn on top of Market Street enabled access form the square to the railway station. Ruthin became a designated County town for Denbighshire in 1907. The status was granted under the Act of Union during the reign of Henry VIII. Meetings of the Court of Quarter Sessions were held in the town as were those of Great Sessions. From 1775 Ruthin housed the county gaol, and in the nineteenth century clerks of the peace administered the county from their solicitors offices in the town. The status of a county town was lost in 1974 under local government reorganisation.
Originally formed in 1841, the fire engines (which were drawn by donkeys or ponies) were stationed at the new town hall in 1869, soon after it was built. In 1926 it became one of the first brigades in North Wales to have a motorised engine. The brigade is now stationed in Park Road.