Bray Town Hall, Municipal building on Main Street in Bray, Ireland.
Bray Town Hall is a red brick structure with three bays on Main Street, built with iron gates and pointed arch windows. The building features half-timbered oriel windows, gables with heraldic carvings, and a fountain topped with a wyvern sculpture at its front.
Lord and Lady Brabazon commissioned this Tudor Revival structure in the late 1870s to replace an earlier market house in north Bray. It served as offices for Bray Urban District Council until 2002, when the council moved operations elsewhere.
The council chamber on the first floor displays intricate wooden details and stained glass windows that fill the space with shifting light. These interior elements show how much this building mattered to the town.
The building sits on Main Street and is easy to reach on foot. A restaurant now occupies the ground floor, making parts of the interior accessible to visitors.
A fountain with a rampant wyvern holding the Brabazon family coat of arms stands at the building's front entrance. This feature marks the strong connection between the structure and its noble patrons who had it built.
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