Holywell Town Hall
Holywell Town Hall () is a municipal structure in the High Street in Holywell, Wales. The façade of the town hall, which is the only surviving part of the original structure, is a Grade II listed building. History. The earliest part of the structure is a tower which was erected in the High Street in 1867 to commemorate the coming of age of Pyers William Mostyn, the son of Sir Pyers Mostyn of Talacre Hall. Although Holywell was an established market town it had no market hall: this issue was resolved when a market hall was erected on  the southwest side of the High Street in 1878. Following a significant growth in population, largely associated with the lead mining and cotton milling industries, Holywell became an urban district in 1894. In this context, the new civic leaders decided to procure a town hall: the site they selected was just in front of the market hall. The new building was designed by Richard Lloyd Williams in the Gothic Revival style, built by Abel Jones of Rhyl in rubble masonry with ashlar dressings and was completed in 1896. The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage with six bays facing onto  the High Street; the second bay on the left was formed by the original Mostyn tower, which was relocated from its original site to form the centrepiece of the new structure. On the ground floor, there was an arched doorway with a fanlight flanked by colonettes supporting a hood mould; the tower, which was supported by machicolated brackets, took the form of a panel bearing an inscription recording the coming of age of Pyers William Mostyn surmounted by a projecting clock, a carved roundel and an octagonal bellcote. The third bay, which was gabled, contained a large arched window with  tracery on the first floor while the sixth bay contained an arched carriageway on the ground floor and a four-light window on the first floor. The other bays contained mullioned windows on the ground floor and lancet windows on the first floor. The writer, Edward Hubbard, was unimpressed by the design which he considered "thoroughly behind the times". Internally, the principal room was the main assembly hall: events held in the assembly hall in the early 20th century included a performance of Handel's oratorio, "The Messiah", in April 1909. The building served as the headquarters of the Holywell  Urban District Council for much of the 20th century but ceased to be local seat of government when the enlarged Delyn District Council was formed at council offices in Halkyn Road in Holywell in 1974. After the empty town hall began to deteriorate, the structure behind the façade was demolished and replaced by a modern office complex in 1986. After a grant of £495,000 from the National Lottery Community Fund was approved in March 2007, an extensive programme of refurbishment works was carried out at the town hall and completed in November 2012. The works included the provision of  accommodation for North Wales Police, for Deeside College, and for a Jobcentre Plus.