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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.
Guildhall Library entrance. The Guildhall Library is a public reference library in London, ... The present Guildhall Library, in the West Wing of Guildhall, opened on ...
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The formal entrance to Guildhall Yard included a gatehouse built in the 13th century, sited directly over the southern entrance to the Roman amphitheatre. The church of St Lawrence Jewry, on the south side of Guildhall Yard, is built on an irregular alignment which may have been intended to shadow the elliptical form of the amphitheatre. [2]
[13] [14] At the end of the 1980s the fountain from the city's rose garden was moved to a position outside the entrance to the art gallery. [15] The magistrates' courts moved to a larger complex in The Avenue in 1999, [16] while the police moved out of the west wing to new facilities in Southern Road in 2011. [17]
Amongst other works he was responsible for the West Wing of the Guildhall, London (1974) and the Guildhall Art Gallery 1999. Both buildings contrast with the Gothic architecture of the Guildhall (which his father was in charge of restoring after World War II), the West Wing being in a modernist tradition, and the Art Gallery being in the post ...
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]
Alexandra House in St John's Street. All magistrates' court hearings in Salisbury were originally held in the courtroom in the west wing of Salisbury Guildhall. [1] [2] Additional judicial facilities, to accommodate the crown and county courts, were established in Alexandra House in St John's Street in the mid-1980s.