Ballymoney Town Hall
Ballymoney Town Hall | |
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Location | High Street, Ballymoney |
Coordinates | 55°04′18″N 6°31′06″W / 55.0716°N 6.5183°W |
Built | 1866 |
Architectural style(s) | Italianate style |
Listed Building – Grade B1 | |
Official name | Town Hall |
Designated | 17 July 1978 |
Reference no. | HB 04/15/006 |
Ballymoney Town Hall is a municipal structure in the High Street, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The structure, which incorporates a local history museum, is a Grade B1 listed building.[1]
History
The first municipal building in Ballymoney was the market hall in Charlotte Street which was erected on the initiative of
The new building was designed in the
In October 1869, the town hall was the venue for a meeting which led, a week later, to the founding of the
In the early 1930s, the building was substantially re-modelled and extended with an extra bay to the south and two extra bays to the north, fenestrated by full height windows with round headed architraves and keystones.[5] The re-modelling also involved the building being coated in a white stucco finish and, following the re-modelling, the building was re-opened by the former Member of the Northern Ireland Parliament, Robert Megaw, on 16 February 1934.[5] The building continued to serve as the meeting place of the urban district council for much of the 20th century,[12] but ceased to be the local seat of government after the enlarged Ballymoney District Council was formed with its offices at Radia House in Charles Street in 1973.[13] An extensive programme of refurbishment works, which involved the creation of new space for the museum and for the tourist information centre, was completed in 2005.[5] Key exhibits in the museum include a sword which belong to the United Irishman, John Nevin, who took part in the Irish Rebellion of 1798.[14][15]
References
- ^ "Town Hall (HB 04/15/006)". Department for Communities. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
- ^ "A stunning stroll here is bang on the money". Belfast Telegraph. 5 October 2009. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
- ^ "Ballymoney". Provincial Grand Lodge of Antrim. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
- ^ "First annual report of the Ballymoney Town Commissioners, for the year ending 1 May 1859". Northern Ireland Community archive. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Ballymoney Town Hall". Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
- ISBN 978-1903688069.
- ^ Clancy, John Joseph (1899). A handbook of local government in Ireland; containing an explanatory introduction to the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898 : together with the text of the act, the orders in Council, and the rules made thereunder relating to county council, rural district council, and guardian's elections : with an index. Dublin: Sealy, Bryers and Walker. p. 441.
- ISBN 978-1903688496.
- ISBN 978-1843510802.
- ISBN 978-0856408243.
- ^ "Royal Irish Rifles". The Long, Long Trail. Archived from the original on 5 February 2012. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
- ^ "No. 2764". The Belfast Gazette. 11 February 1972. p. 50.
- ^ "No. 3001". The Belfast Gazette. 12 April 1974. p. 216.
- ^ "John Nevin's sword". BBC. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
- ISBN 978-0198749356.