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Description: | The substantial five-arched Baroque building in the foreground right of this image is Monmouth's Shire Hall. Completed in 1724 on the site of a timbered Elizabethan structure, the building secured a place in history as the setting for the infamous Chartist trials of 1840. Following the Newport Riots, The courts of judicature held in the building sentenced John Frost, the former Mayor of Newport, to be transported to Van Diemen's Land. | Subjects: | Aerial View Townscape | Source: | English Heritage - Viewfinder | Creator: | Wingham, H A | Identifier: | http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.u... | Language: | en | Go to resource |
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