Drill Hall of the Barnsley Volunteer Rifle Corps. The corps was formed in 1860 and later became the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Yorkshire and Lancashire Regiment. The drill hall was built in 1896. In the 1990s the building was sold to the Barnsley Chronicle. (Sheffield Hallam University 1999 [accessed 29/1/08]. This was built on land that was previously part of the probable medieval crofts associated with the housing along Market Hill and Church Street. Barnsley was moved from its original position at Old Town by the monks of Pontefract some time in the 12th or 13th century (Elliot 2002, 27) and set out as a planned settlement. There is partial legibility of the croft pattern in the layout of the buildings.