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Original Text (Annotation: epw000885 / 208021)
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THE COUNTY HALL ABINGDON.
BUILT IN 1682 BY CHRISTOPHER KEMPSTER WHO HAD BEEN WORKING WITH SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN ON LONDON CHURCHS.
IT WAS BUILT BETWEEN 1678-1684,AND WAS ERECTED'' AS A
HOUSE FOR HER MAJESTY JUSTICES TO TAKE THE ASSIZES IN ABINGDON BEING IT BE COUNTY TOWN OF BERKSHIRE.
NIKOLAUS PEVSNER,IN 1966 DESCRIBED THE COUNTY HALL AS FOLLOWS: OF FREE-STANDING TOWN HALLS OF ENGLAND WITH OPEN
GROUND FLOORS THIS IS THE GRANDEST-GRANDER DECIDEDLY THAN
WINDSOR''. '