1908 – Lancaster Town Hall, Lancashire
Architect: E.W. Mountford & F.D. Clapham
An imposing Italian marble entrance leads to the Edwardian Ballroom,
Next door to the Altes Rathaus (old city hall),
Later head of architecture at University College Dublin,
Public building with few architectural pretensions other than the round-headed windows at ground level and the small,
Jones & Kelly were chosen as a result of an architectural competition held in 1920.
Former branch of the Royal Bank of Ireland,
Fine town hall with Art Deco detailing.
Soon after the amalgamation of Kensington with Chelsea it was decided to replace the two old town halls with a joint Civic Centre in Hornton Street.
Faro was recognized as a town by the kinf Afonso III in 1266 and it was by then that the first “town hall”