Old Town Hall, Wolverhampton


The old Town Hall is a former municipal facility in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, United Kingdom. It is a Grade II listed building.

History

The building was commissioned to replace an even earlier town hall which had been built in 1687. The new building was designed by Ernest Bates in the Renaissance style and opened in October 1871.
The building was originally the meeting place of Wolverhampton Metropolitan Borough Council which secured county borough status in 1889. Following the implementation of re-organisation associated with the Local Government Act 1972, it briefly remained the headquarters of Wolverhampton Metropolitan Borough Council, until the council moved to Wolverhampton Civic Centre in 1978. The old Town Hall then ceased to be used as a municipal facility and instead became the local home of the magistrates courts. A proposal for the magistrates courts to move to a new complex in Darlington Street was considered in 2010 but subsequently abandoned as uneconomic.