Venue: Hall for Cornwall
Address: Boscawen Street, Truro, TR1 2NE, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Town: Truro, GB

The Hall for Cornwall, known as Truro City Hall until 1997, is an events venue in Boscawen Street in Truro, Cornwall. The building, which was previously the headquarters of Truro City Council, is a Grade II* listed building. The first municipal building in Truro was a 17th-century market house, which was arcaded on the ground floor so that markets could be held, with an assembly hall on the first floor. It was replaced with a more substantial structure in 1809 but when that was also found to be inadequate, civic leaders commissioned a new building on the same site in the early 1840s. The new building was designed by Christopher Eales in the Italianate style, built in granite ashlar stone and completed in 1846. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with five bays facing onto Boscawen Street; the ground floor was arcaded and rusticated, while the first floor had sash windows with triangular pediments on the central and outer windows and with segmental pediments on the other windows. There were quoins at the corners and at roof level there was a heavily modillioned cornice. Internally, the north end of the complex accommodated the municipal buildings, which included a courtroom and a council chamber, while the south end accommodated a market hall. A clock, manufactured by J. Moore & Sons of Clerkenwell, was provided in 1854 (the gift of J. L. Damper Esq.). A clocktower was installed on the Boscawen Street frontage in 1858. The suffragette, Helen Beedy, gave a speech advocating voting rights for women at a public meeting in the building in December 1874. In 1877, when Truro became a city, the complex was renamed Truro City Hall. In the early 20th century civic leaders decided to make the market hall at the rear of the complex available for public use. This resulted in the market hall being operated as a skating rink in 1907 and then as a cinema in 1912. In 1914 the clock tower caught fire; it spread through the roof and gutted much of the building. After the b