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A look around Monmouth in Monmouthshire - the county town of the county.

On Priory Street in Monmouth. The Monmouth Museum is up here, next to the River Monnow.

This is now the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monmouth_Museum" rel="nofollow">Monmouth Museum</a>.

The Monmouth Museum, alternatively known as The Nelson Museum and Local History Centre, is a museum in Monmouth, Monmouthshire, south east Wales. It features a collection of artifacts associated with Admiral Horatio Nelson. The Museum is located in the old Market Hall in the town centre in Monmouth, a short distance from the River Monnow, Monmouth Castle and Agincourt Square.

The building is Grade II listed.

<a href="http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wa-2317-nelson-museum-local-history-centre-and-mon#.VYxdhkaC8Xw" rel="nofollow">Nelson Museum, Local History Centre, and Monmouthshire County Council Area Office, Monmouth</a>

   Location
   Part of the group on the principal street leading north and east from the town square.

   History
   1837-9. G V Maddox was architect, and the building was completed in 1839. It was built as Monmouth covered Market as a part of the Monmouth street improvements after the laying out of Priory Street in 1837. Seriously damaged by fire in 1963 when the upper storey was lost, and reconstructed 1968-69 by Donald Insall and Associates as a post office, local government offices, coffee bar and restaurant and new town and Nelson museums; the post office and coffee bar are now gone but the other uses continue.

   Interior
   Interior of the building entirely reconstructed in 1968-9 with a wholly modern finish.

   Exterior
   The street faade is constructed of Bath stone ashlar, the rest in modern materials, Welsh slate roofs where visible. Austere Greek Revival style on the street front with the rear 1960s modern.
   Building well sited on a concave curve. Formerly partly of two storeys with a ground floor Doric arcade, and central pedimented block with cupola, but post-fire the building is now one storey only, retaining all of the original arcade of eleven bays, of which centre and ends are wider and project slightly as the entrances; arranged E : W : W : W : W : E : W : W : W : W : E. Round headed recessed windows divided by pilasters, while the entrances have Doric columns in-antis, arched doorways within, all with modern glazed screens. Continuous entablature and parapet, shallow hipped roofs to the entrance bays.
   The back of the building was entirely reconstructed, with a range of steel framed oriels overlooking the river.

   Reason for Listing
   Included for its special architectural interest as part of an important piece of early C19 town planning in the Monmouth centre.

   References
   Howard Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, 3rd ed., Yale University Press, 1993, p 635.
   John Newman, The Buildings of Wales, Gwent/Monmouthshire, Penguin, 2000, p 405.
   Keith Kissack, Monmouth and its Buildings, Logaston Press, 2003, p 34.

This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building. Notes:

   Part of the group on the principal street leading north and east from the town square.

Source: Cadw

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