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The guildhall was used as the offices of the deken (deacon) and other guild officers, and for meetings by the overlieden (board of directors). The guild members would occasionally be called to the guildhall for meetings on important matters. [13] [14] The guildhall of the merchants' guild also served as de facto commodity market.
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 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 building occupies a long, narrow site which was once a burgage plot between King Street and the river.
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They were covered over by John Shakespeare some time in the 1560s-1570s, acting as town chamberlain and in accordance with Elizabeth I's injunction of 1559 to remove "all signs of superstition and idolatry from places of worship". [6] John Shakespeare's contemporary record details his paying two shillings for "defasyng ymages in ye chapel". [7]
In local government, a city hall, town hall, civic centre (in the UK or Australia), guildhall, or municipal building (in the Philippines) is the chief administrative building of a city, [3] town, or other municipality. It usually houses the city or town council and at least some other arms of the local government.
The Guildhall Art Gallery houses the art collection of the City of London, England.The museum is located in the Moorgate area of the City of London. It is a stone building in a semi-Gothic style intended to be sympathetic to the historic Guildhall, which is adjacent and to which it is connected internally.
The Guildhall in Leicester, England, is a timber framed building, with the earliest part dating from c. 1390. The Guildhall once acted as the town hall for the city until the current one was commissioned in 1876. It is located in the old walled city, on a street now known as Guildhall Lane.