Wakefield Town Hall, on Wood Street at the western edge of the centre, is a confident piece of late-Victorian municipal architecture by Thomas Edward Collcutt, the architect of the Imperial Institute in London. The building was opened in 1880 with a stone clock-tower and a single-cell council chamber lit by a high coffered ceiling.
Most of the interior is in regular use as council offices and is not generally open to the public, but the exterior — Bath stone, Italian Renaissance detailing, and a substantial clock-tower — is the centrepiece of the most coherent block of Victorian municipal building in Wakefield. The street it sits on is worth a slow walk.