The Moot Hall is a former judicial structure in The Market Place, Hexham, Northumberland, England.
[1] The building was commissioned by the Archbishop of York, Alexander Neville, as a gatehouse to an enclosure now known as Hallgate, where the Old Gaol stands.
[1][2][3] The design involved a four-storey tower, with a three-storey annex to the left, facing onto the Market Place.
[6][7][8] After that it was used as a venue for the midsummer quarter sessions until 1838,[9] and the building still stands as one of the best surviving examples of a medieval courthouse in the north of England.
[3] A collection of 10,000 books, which had been presented by a local grocery chain proprietor, Joseph William Brough, in 1948, was stored in the building and remained there until it was relocated to a new library in the central section of the Queen's Hall in 1983.