The building, which was previously the offices and meeting place of the Mirfield Urban District Council, is now used as a worship hall by the Salvation Army.

[3] It was designed by Kirk and Sons of Dewsbury in the Italianate style, built in ashlar stone and was officially opened the chairman of Mirfield Town Hall Company, J. Marshall Johnson, on 25 November 1868.

In November 1870, the founder of the National Secular Society and noted atheist, Charles Bradlaugh, was booked to give two lectures in the town hall.

When the chairman of the Mirfield Town Hall Company, who had strong Christian views, found out, he cancelled the booking and barricaded the building.

Bradlaugh sued for breach of contract but lost the case when the court decided that the hall keeper did not have authority to take the original bookings.