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Exeter Guildhall, the Glossary

Exeter Guildhall on the High Street of Exeter, Devon, England has been the centre of civic government for the city for at least 600 years.^[1]

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29 relations: Beer Quarry Caves, Bloody Assizes, County borough, December 1910 United Kingdom general election, Devon, Devon heraldry, Election petition, England, Exeter, George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys, Gilding, Granite, Guild, Guildhall, Harold St Maur, Henry Duke, 1st Baron Merrivale, Henry Hugh Armstead, Listed building, Monmouth Rebellion, Mullion, Nikolaus Pevsner, Penguin Books, Scheduled monument, Seat of government, Stocks, Strapwork, Thomas Westcote, Transom (architecture), Truss.
Buildings and structures in Exeter
City and town halls in Devon
Government buildings completed in 1470
Grade I listed buildings in Devon
Guildhalls in the United Kingdom
Tourist attractions in Exeter

Beer Quarry Caves

Beer Quarry Caves is a man-made limestone underground complex located about a mile west of the village of Beer, Devon, and the main source in England for beer stone.

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Bloody Assizes

The Bloody Assizes were a series of trials started at Winchester on 25 August 1685 in the aftermath of the Battle of Sedgemoor, which ended the Monmouth Rebellion in England.

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County borough is a term introduced in 1889 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to refer to a borough or a city independent of county council control, similar to the unitary authorities created since the 1990s.

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December 1910 United Kingdom general election

The December 1910 United Kingdom general election was held from 3 to 19 December.

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Devon

Devon (historically also known as Devonshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Devon heraldry

The landed gentry and nobility of Devonshire, like the rest of the English and European gentry, bore heraldic arms from the start of the age of heraldry circa 1200–1215.

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Election petition

An election petition refers to the procedure for challenging the result of a parliamentary election.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Exeter

Exeter is a cathedral city and the county town of Devon, South West England.

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George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys

George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys (15 May 1645 – 18 April 1689), also known as "the Hanging Judge", was a Welsh judge.

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Gilding

Gilding is a decorative technique for applying a very thin coating of gold over solid surfaces such as metal (most common), wood, porcelain, or stone.

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Granite

Granite is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase.

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Guild

A guild is an association of artisans and merchants who oversee the practice of their craft/trade in a particular territory.

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Guildhall

A guildhall, also known as a "guild hall" or "guild house", is a historical building originally used for tax collecting by municipalities or merchants in Europe, with many surviving today in Great Britain and the Low Countries.

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Harold St Maur

Major Richard Harold St Maur JP DL (pronounced "Seemer"; 6 June 1869 – 5 April 1927) was an unsuccessful claimant to the Dukedom of Somerset and briefly a Liberal Member of Parliament for Exeter, being unseated on an election petition by a single vote.

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Henry Duke, 1st Baron Merrivale

Henry Edward Duke, 1st Baron Merrivale (5 November 1855 – 20 May 1939) was a British judge and Conservative politician.

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Henry Hugh Armstead

Henry Hugh Armstead (18 June 18284 December 1905) was an English sculptor and illustrator, influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites.

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Listed building

In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural and/or historic interest deserving of special protection.

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Monmouth Rebellion

The Monmouth Rebellion, also known as the Pitchfork Rebellion, the Revolt of the West or the West Country rebellion, was an attempt to depose James II, who in February 1685 succeeded his brother Charles II as king of England, Scotland and Ireland.

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Mullion

A mullion is a vertical element that forms a division between units of a window or screen, or is used decoratively.

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Nikolaus Pevsner

Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, The Buildings of England (1951–74).

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house.

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Scheduled monument

In the United Kingdom, a scheduled monument is a nationally important archaeological site or historic building, given protection against unauthorised change.

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Seat of government

The seat of government is (as defined by Brewer's Politics) "the building, complex of buildings or the city from which a government exercises its authority".

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Stocks

Stocks are feet restraining devices that were used as a form of corporal punishment and public humiliation.

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Strapwork

In the history of art and design, strapwork is the use of stylised representations in ornament of ribbon-like forms.

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Thomas Westcote

Thomas Westcote (c. 1567 – c. 1637) (alias Westcott) of Raddon in the parish of Shobrooke in Devon, was an English historian and topographer of Devon.

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Transom (architecture)

In architecture, a transom is a transverse horizontal structural beam or bar, or a crosspiece separating a door from a window above it.

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Truss

A truss is an assembly of members such as beams, connected by nodes, that creates a rigid structure.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exeter_Guildhall