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More buildings of interest in Mold

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The parish church of St Mary the Virgin
The church was commissioned by Margaret Beaufort, Henry Tudor’s mother. She built it to celebrate her son’s victory at Bosworth which dates it to 1485.
This church was one of five that she sponsored which just shows you how wealthy that family was.
The Victorians have since had their play with it.

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Earl Road
Earl Road is a street dedicated to Edwardian civic opulence, with a fine collection of Edwardian neo-Baroque buildings. Architecturally it is the most uniform street in town, and about the only one they haven’t started bashing about yet!
They are in the ‘red and white’ Queen Anne style that was popular just before WWI.
The town hall is one of a number of buildings on this street built by local architect FA Roberts, opened in 1912.

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Assembly Rooms
The modern day centre of town is dominated by what was the market hall and assembly rooms. It appears that this area has always been the centre of things from the fifteenth century as the Victorian building replaces the ancient Leete Hall built in 1470.
The new market hall was built by the Mold Market Board around 1849 and was designed by Alfred Lockwood. An extra storey was added in 1879 but it was pulled down in 1985. It’s a bit of a theme for Mold! This building sits right at the end of the tradition for public buildings that were designed to look like classical temples.

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