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The Guildhall library in England, which includes the New Testament in Greek from the 15th century, was established in 1632, when the town library was moved into the east wing of the building. [8] Leicester's first police force had its station in the Guildhall from 1836. [8] The Corporation moved to the new Leicester Town Hall in 1876. Apart ...
It is surrounded by Charles Street (southwest) and Church Street (northwest), Colton Street and Orton Square (northeast), and St George's Way, designated the A594, Leicester's inner ring road (southeast). [4] The main entrance is to the south. The first headquarters of the Leicester Borough Police from 1836 was in the medieval Leicester ...
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Leicester, ... 1606 — Shakespeare’s Company performed in Leicester Guildhall with William Shakespeare ...
Four years' worth of research and writing by one history group has now been published.
local history, archaeology. [3] King Richard III: Dynasty, Death and Discovery: Leicester: Archaeology: Visitor Centre at the Greyfriars burial site, with exhibitions on the life and death of Richard III and the archaeological investigation on his remains. [4] Leicester Guildhall: Leicester: Medieval
In the United Kingdom, a guildhall is usually a town hall: in the vast majority of cases, the guildhalls have never served as the meeting place of any specific guild. A suggested etymology is from the Anglo Saxon "gild ", or "payment"; the guildhall being where citizens came to pay their rates. The London Guildhall was established around 1120. [1]
1km 0.6miles War Memorial 14 Magazine Gateway 13 St Nicholas' 12 Jewry Wall 11 St Margaret's 10 City Rooms 9 Guildhall 8 All Saints 7 St Mary de Castro 6 Turret Gateway 5 Castle 4 Cavendish House 3 Abbot Penny's Wall 2 Abbey Ruins 1 Grade I listed buildings in Leicester Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX ...
Leicester Town Council accepted on 29 October 1878, "a handsome ornamental fountain to be placed in the centre of the land fronting the Town Hall Buildings" which was a gift to the Borough from Sir Israel Hart, a former Mayor of Leicester. [13] It is constructed of bronze-painted cast iron, Shap granite and Ross of Mull granite. [14]