Listed Building: COUNTY HALL, ST MARYS GATE (1279174)

1660. Fine facade set back from street at rear of cour d'honneur. Classical style. Stone; single-storeyed facade; 3 large round-headed windows with stone mullioned rectangular frames; pilasters between windows and Tuscan columns at corners; 2 splendid stone doorcases surmounted by entablatures with segmental pediments and each within voluted broken pediment, semi-circular arched doorways and multi-panelled divided doors, stylobate of 4 - steps; and moulded eaves cornice surmounted by an open balustrade; hipped slate roof. Interior: Plain Court Room (now the Crown Court) containing monument to F N Clarage Mundy, with bust, by Chantrey, 1820. Believed to be the setting of Betty Sorrel's trial in George Elliot's novel "Adam Bede".