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Greenlaw Town Hall
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Greenlaw Town Hall is a municipal building in The Square, Greenlaw, Scottish Borders, Scotland. The structure, which served as the county headquarters of Berwickshire in the 19th century, is a Category A listed building.
As the then county town of Berwickshire, Greenlaw needed a building from which to dispense justice: a courthouse was erected to the west of Greenlaw Church in 1712. However, by the early 19th century, the justices decided that the old building was inadequate for their needs and it was demolished in 1830.
The current building was commissioned by Sir William Purves-Hume-Campbell, 6th Baronet at his own expense as the new county courthouse. It was designed in the Greek Revival style by John Cunningham, who had previously designed a lodge for Purves-Hume-Campbell on the Marchmont Estate. It was built by a local builder, William Waddell, in ashlar stone and was completed in 1831. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage of five bays facing onto The Square. The central bay was formed by a full-height portico with Ionic order columns and antae supporting a frieze, an entablature, a cornice and a circular structure with oculi and a domed roof. The end bays, which were projected forward as pavilions, were fenestrated by sash windows with architraves and cornices. Internally, the principal room was the main hall which served as both meeting room and courtroom: there was also a fire-proof room for the storage of the county records.
The building was initially called "County Hall", and served as the venue for the Berwickshire Sheriff Court and meeting place for the Commissioners of Supply, the main administrative body of the county prior to 1890. Greenlaw had been made county town under an act of the Scottish Parliament in 1696, taking the role from Duns. The rivalry between the two towns resurfaced in the nineteenth century. Duns had grown to be one of the larger towns in the county, whereas Greenlaw remained little more than a village. In 1853 an Act of Parliament was passed allowing the courts and commissioners' meetings to be held at Duns as well as at Greenlaw.
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