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Baldur's Gate 3 is a 2023 role-playing video game developed and published by Larian Studios.It is the third main installment of the Baldur's Gate series, based on the tabletop fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons.
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A charter incorporating the borough was presented by the Lord of Glamorgan, Hugh le Despenser, Baron le Despenser, to the freemen of the town in 1346, [2] and an early guildhall was erected on the north side of Castle Green at around that time. [3] A school was established in the guildhall in 1739. [4]
During the Second world War the Royal Observer Corps established a control centre in the guildhall. [7] [8] After the war the condition of the building deteriorated and it was placed in the Heritage At Risk register in the 1980s. [9] In July 2015 the Bury St Edmunds Heritage Trust launched a project to convert the guildhall into a heritage centre.
The site on which the current building stands had previously been occupied by a 16th-century mansion known as Castle Gates House, which was dismantled and moved to a new location near Shrewsbury Castle. [1] [3] The current building, which was designed for Francis Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford, was completed in 1696. [1]
Guildhall crypt. During the Roman period, the Guildhall was the site of the London Roman Amphitheatre, rediscovered as recently as 1988.It was the largest in Roman Britain, partial remains of which are on public display in the basement of the Guildhall Art Gallery, and the outline of whose arena is marked with a black circle on the paving of the courtyard in front of the hall.
The guildhall contains a number of paintings by George Bouchier Richardson (1822–1877) of local scenes, including the Entrance to the Side, the Pandon Gate, the old Tyne Bridge, the old Maison de Dieu and the old Exchange. [12] The building has housed the Newcastle branch of the Hard Rock Cafe since the summer of 2021. [13]
Sir Winston Churchill was presented with the Freedom of the City of Worcester at the Guildhall on 20 May 1950. [7] The Guildhall was the headquarters of the county borough of Worcester for much of the 20th century and, following the implementation of the Local Government Act 1972, [8] became the meeting place of enlarged Worcester City Council. [9]