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Gatehouse of the College Corpus Christi hall, a former trades guild hall confiscated in 1547 and used a grammar school until 1871.. Evidence of prehistoric inhabitants includes artefacts unearthed dating as far back as Mesolithic times, [1] along with many local Neolithic finds, notably at Kit's Coty and the Countless Stones.
Emerging out of and developing alongside liturgical drama, was the religious drama of the Corpus Christi plays which moved outside the church. [2] Thus developed the large-scale Mystery Plays that were performed by city guilds during the Corpus Christi or Midsummer festival each year until the middle of the sixteenth-century. [3]
Corpus Christi College (full name: "The College of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary", often shortened to "Corpus") is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. [4] From the late 14th century to the early 19th century it was also commonly known as St Benet's College .
The Old Nueces County Courthouse is a historic government building in downtown Corpus Christi, Texas, United States. All functions at the courthouse relocated to the current county courthouse just a few streets away. The old courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. [2]
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The architect of Memorial Coliseum, Richard S. Colley, was Corpus Christi's local star in the world of architecture. The original design included a comprehensive plan for a bayfront 'Civic Center' which would include a City Hall, an auditorium/coliseum, a medium-size exposition hall and two parks.
More than £1m could be spent on repairing Rochdale Town Hall's clock and the historic steps behind the Victorian building. Rochdale Council said the £1.08m allocated for the work was a high ...
The Nueces Hotel as seen in an illustration from the 1940s. The Nueces Hotel in Corpus Christi, Texas, was a luxury hotel that also served the city as a center of social and political life during the early 20th century and was for years the largest building in Texas south of San Antonio.