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The Royal Visit to Swansea: Swansea Townhall, 1881. The Old Guildhall was first built 1825-29 by Thomas Bowen, a local builder, to designs by John Collingwood, architect of Gloucester. It was enlarged and entirely remodelled between 1848-52 by William Richards of Swansea to plans by Thomas Taylor, architect of London; dated 1848 over entrance. There were later extensions and alterations to north and east sides and the interior was remodelled (partly by C J Phipps of London, 1870). The building has Corinthian order columns (capitals modelled on Temple of Jupiter Stator in Rome) and tall round-arched windows with architraves, lion masks and heads to the keyblocks. It was later renamed the Dylan Thomas Centre. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.