From The Warminster Official Guide And Souvenir 1928 (penned by Victor Strode Manley):
The Town Hall in the Market Place was presented to the town in 1904 by the Marquis of Bath. It is much admired as a good example of the Jacobean style, built in 1830 from designs by Sir E. Blore, together with a fine block of gabled premises alongside. The ground floor is occupied by Law Courts and the upper portion is designed as a ball and ante-rooms. The walls of the ball and ante-rooms are embellished by about 200 heads of foreign animals. The following tablet in the entrance to the Hall gives their history:-
“The collection of Big Game Trophies in this Hall shot in North West Rhodesia, British East Africa, & the Soudan, by the late Captain C. M. Thornton of Greenhill, Sutton Veney [Sutton Veny], Warminster, was generously presented to the town of Warminster by his two daughters in memory of their father’s intimate connection with the town, 4th September, 1911.”
The Hall is used for public meetings, and Warminster has the distinction of being one of the four Quarter Sessions Towns in Wiltshire. The Chairman of the Warminster Court is His Honour Judge Randolph, K. C., and the Vice-Chairman, Mr. A. M. Dunne, K. C. The other three towns are Salisbury, Devizes and Marlborough. The progressive Town Council also hold their monthly meetings there.