The building was designed in the Baroque style by Christopher Kempster who trained with Sir Christopher Wren on St Paul's Cathedral.
It stands on large pilasters with a sheltered area beneath for use as a market or other municipal functions and was completed in 1683.
Nikolaus Pevsner said of the building: "Of the free-standing town halls of England with open ground floors this is the grandest".
It housed a courtroom for the assizes until 1867 when Abingdon ceded that role to Reading Assize Courts.
The building was designed in the Baroque style by Christopher Kempster who trained with Sir Christopher Wren on St Paul's Cathedral. It stands on large pilasters with a sheltered area beneath for use as a market or other municipal functions and was completed in 1683. Nikolaus Pevsner said of the building: "Of the free-standing town halls of England with open ground floors this is the grandest". It housed a courtroom for the assizes until 1867 when Abingdon ceded that role to Reading Assize Courts.
Abingdon County Hall Museum