Shire Hall
The Shire Hall is a public building in Stafford, England, completed in 1798 to a design by John Harvey. Formerly a courthouse, it housed an art gallery which closed to the public in July 2017.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Building
- Description: historic site in Stafford, Staffordshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Shire Hall And Attached Railings, Gates And Lamp Standards” and “Shire Hall, Stafford”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Ancient High House and St Mary’s Church, Stafford.
Ancient High House
Museum
Photo: Stocksy, Public domain.
The Ancient High House is an Elizabethan town house located on the main street in Stafford. The house was constructed in 1595 by the Dorrington family, from local oak, which anecdotally came from the nearby Doxey Wood, and is the largest timber framed town house in England. Ancient High House is situated 360 feet south of Shire Hall.
St Mary’s Church, Stafford
Church
Photo: David Neill, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Mary's Church, Stafford is a Grade I listed parish church in Stafford, Staffordshire, England. St Mary’s Church, Stafford is situated 440 feet southwest of Shire Hall.
William Salt Library
Library
Photo: Simon Huguet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The William Salt Library is a library and archive, in Stafford, Staffordshire, England. Supported by Staffordshire County Council, it is a registered charity, administered by an independent trust in conjunction with the Staffordshire & Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service, which also operates the county archives from an adjacent building. William Salt Library is situated 630 feet east of Shire Hall.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stafford and Doxey.
Stafford
Photo: Stocksy, Public domain.
Stafford is a market town and the county town of Staffordshire, England. It is located about 15 miles south of Stoke-on-Trent, 15 miles north of Wolverhampton and 24 miles north-west of Birmingham.
Doxey
Village
Doxey is a village and civil parish in the borough of Stafford in Staffordshire, England; it is a north-western suburb of Stafford. It became a civil parish on 1 April 2005.
Derrington
Village
Derrington is a village west of the town of Stafford, in Staffordshire, England. For population details from the 2011 census see under Seighford. Derrington had an 18th-century pub, The Red Lion, but it has ceased trading. Derrington is situated 2 miles west of Shire Hall.
Shire Hall
- Category: hall
- Location: Stafford District, Staffordshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.80725° or 52° 48′ 26″ northLongitude
-2.11678° or 2° 7′ 0″ westInception
1798Operator
Staffordshire County CouncilOpen location code
9C4VRV4M+V7OpenStreetMap ID
way 127091724OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesWikidata ID
Q7498359
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