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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]
The Borthwick Institute for Archives at the University of York holds photocopies of many of the medieval deeds, account rolls, rentals, and of Guild minutes for the period 1677–1985. [7] From 1918, the Company appointed Maud Sellers as an honorary archivist of its historical material - Sellers was a historian with an interest in the site and ...
The internal layout of the building was remodelled, so that the ground floor became a caretaker's flat, and the courtroom became a reading room, in the late 19th century. An extensive programme of refurbishment works, which involved the conversion of both floors into museum space, was completed under the supervision of a local historian ...
St George's Guildhall in King's Lynn is a Grade I listed building, currently in the ownership of the National Trust. At 32.6 x 8.8 m (107 x 29 feet), it is the oldest and largest complete medieval Guildhall in England with an unrivalled history as a venue for theatrical production.
The Guildhall of St George is the largest surviving medieval guildhall in the country. It is a Grade I listed building. [21] Built of brick, and of two storeys with a gable roof, its dimensions are 32.6 x 8.8 m (107 x 29 feet). [22]
The Belfry of Bruges, a prominent example of civic Gothic architecture Norwich Guildhall, 1404–1413 1360s windows, Old Town Hall (Rathaus), Regensburg (built 1245 onwards) [1] Gothic architecture is a style of architecture that flourished during the high and late medieval period.
St George’s Guildhall in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, last year identified floorboards believed to have formed part of a stage once trodden by the Bard. Theatre finds doorway that may once have led ...
The building was built in the medieval style between 1340 and 1342 and much altered and extended in 1460. [1]The guildhall originally served as the headquarters of the merchant guild of St Mary, [2] and subsequently of the united guilds of the Holy Trinity, St Mary, St John the Baptist and St Katherine, [3] which merged in 1392.