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Guildhall, the Glossary

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.^[1]

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Guildhalls
Seats of local government

Amsterdam

Amsterdam (literally, "The Dam on the River Amstel") is the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands.

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Andover Guildhall

Andover Guildhall is a municipal building in the High Street, Andover, Hampshire, England.

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Anglo-Saxons

The Anglo-Saxons, the English or Saxons of Britain, were a cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages.

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Antwerp

Antwerp (Antwerpen; Anvers) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium.

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Baroque architecture

Baroque architecture is a highly decorative and theatrical style which appeared in Italy in the early 17th century and gradually spread across Europe.

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Beverley Guildhall

The Guildhall is a municipal facility at Register Square in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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Bewdley Guildhall

Bewdley Guildhall is a municipal building in Load Street in Bewdley, Worcestershire, England.

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Blakeney Guildhall

Blakeney Guildhall is a building in the coastal village of Blakeney in the north of the county of Norfolk.

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Bodmin Guildhall

Bodmin Guildhall is a historic building in Fore Street in Bodmin, a town in Cornwall, in England.

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Boston Guildhall

Boston Guildhall is a former municipal building in Boston, Lincolnshire.

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Bradninch Guildhall

Bradninch Guildhall is a municipal building in Fore Street, Bradninch, Devon, England.

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Brecon Guildhall

Brecon Guildhall (Neuadd y Dref Aberhonddu), is a municipal building in the High Street, Brecon, Powys, Wales.

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Bristol Guildhall

Bristol Guildhall is a municipal building in Broad Street, Bristol, England.

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Bury St Edmunds Guildhall

Bury St Edmunds Guildhall is a municipal building in the Guildhall Street, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.

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Cambridge Guildhall

Cambridge Guildhall is a civic building in the centre of the historic city of Cambridge, England.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Canterbury Guildhall

Canterbury Guildhall, formerly the Church of the Holy Cross, is a municipal building in St Peter's Place in Canterbury, Kent, England.

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Cardigan Guildhall

Cardigan Guildhall (Neuadd y Dref Aberteifi), is a municipal building in Pendre, Cardigan, Ceredigion, Wales.

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Carmarthen Guildhall

Carmarthen Guildhall (Neuadd y Dref Caerfyrddin) is a municipal structure in Guildhall Square, Carmarthen, Wales.

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Chichester Guildhall

Chichester Guildhall is a building in Chichester, West Sussex, England.

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City of London

The City of London, also known as the City, is a city, ceremonial county and local government district that contains the ancient centre, and constitutes, along with Canary Wharf, the primary central business district (CBD) of London and one of the leading financial centres of the world.

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City of London Corporation

The City of London Corporation, officially and legally the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London, is the local authority of the City of London, the historic centre of London and the location of much of the United Kingdom's financial sector.

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Cologne

Cologne (Köln; Kölle) is the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urban region.

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Commodity market

A commodity market is a market that trades in the primary economic sector rather than manufactured products, such as cocoa, fruit and sugar.

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Company of Merchant Adventurers of London

The Company of Merchant Adventurers of London was a trading company founded in the City of London in the early 15th century.

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Company of Merchant Adventurers to New Lands

The Company of Merchant Adventurers to New Lands was an early joint stock association, which began with private exploration and enterprise, and was to have been incorporated by King Edward VI in 1553, but received its full royal charter in 1555.

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Conwy Guildhall

Conwy Guildhall (Neuadd y Dref Conwy) is a municipal structure in Rose Hill Street, Conwy, Wales.

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Derby Guildhall

Derby Guildhall is a municipal building in the Market Place, Derby, England.

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Devonport Guildhall

Devonport Guildhall is a municipal building that served as a municipal hall, courthouse, mortuary, and police station, located in the municipal centre of the town of Devonport, in Plymouth, Devon, England.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Exeter Guildhall

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.

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Faversham Guildhall

Faversham Guildhall is a municipal building in the Market Place in Faversham, Kent, England.

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Gable stone

Gable stones (gevelstenen) are carved and often colourfully painted stone tablets, which are set into the walls of buildings, usually at about 4 metres from the ground.

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Gelderland

Gelderland, also known as Guelders in English, is a province of the Netherlands, occupying the centre-east of the country.

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Germania (guild)

Germanies (in Catalan; literally "brotherhoods") were guilds of artisans in the Kingdom of Valencia in Spain.

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Gloucester Guildhall

Gloucester Guildhall is a former municipal building in Eastgate Street, Gloucester, which is now used as an arts and theatre venue.

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Grand-Place

The italic ("Grand Square"; also used in English) or italic ("Big Market") is the central square of Brussels, Belgium.

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Grantham Guildhall

Grantham Guildhall is a municipal building on St Peter's Hill, Grantham, Lincolnshire, England.

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Great Britain

Great Britain (commonly shortened to Britain) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland and Wales.

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Grote Markt, Antwerp

The italic ("Big Market") is the central square of Antwerp, Belgium, situated in the heart of the old city quarter.

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Grote Markt, Leuven

The Grote Markt ("Big Market") is the central square of Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium.

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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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Guildford Guildhall

The Guildford Guildhall is a Guildhall located on the High Street of the town of Guildford, Surrey.

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Guildhall and Stonebow, Lincoln

The Guildhall and Stonebow, Lincoln, has been the meeting place of Lincoln City Council from Medieval times to the present.

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Guildhall, Barnstaple

The Guildhall in Barnstaple in Devon in the United Kingdom is the Guildhall for the town and was completed in 1828, replacing an earlier Guildhall.

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Guildhall, Bath

Guildhall is an 18th-century municipal building in central Bath, Somerset, England.

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Guildhall, Chester

The Guildhall, formerly Holy Trinity Church, is a redundant church in Watergate in the city of Chester, Cheshire, England.

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Guildhall, Derry

The Guildhall in Derry, Northern Ireland, is a guildhall in which the elected members of Derry City and Strabane District Council meet.

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Guildhall, Kingston upon Hull

The Guildhall is a building on Alfred Gelder Street in the City of Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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Guildhall, London

Guildhall is a municipal building in the Moorgate area of the City of London, England.

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Guildhall, Newcastle upon Tyne

The Guildhall is an important civic building in Newcastle upon Tyne.

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Guildhall, Plympton

The Guildhall is a municipal building in Fore Street in Plympton, Devon, England.

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Guildhall, South Molton

The Guildhall on Broad Street in South Molton in Devon was built between 1739 and 1743Pevsner, N. & Cherry, B., The Buildings of England: Devon, 2004, p.749 and has been a Grade I listed building on the Register of Historic England since 1951.

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Guildhall, Wrexham

The Guildhall is a municipal building in Wrexham, Wales.

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Guilds of Brussels

The Guilds of Brussels (Guildes de Bruxelles; Gilden van Brussel), grouped in the Nine Nations of Brussels (Neuf Nations de Bruxelles; Negen Naties van Brussel), were associations of craft guilds that dominated the economic life of Brussels in the late medieval and early modern periods.

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Hanseatic League

The Hanseatic League was a medieval commercial and defensive network of merchant guilds and market towns in Central and Northern Europe.

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Harwich Guildhall

Harwich Guildhall is a municipal building in Church Street, Harwich, Essex, England.

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Helston Guildhall

Helston Guildhall, formerly Helston Town Hall, is a municipal building on Market Place, Helston, Cornwall, England.

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High Wycombe Guildhall

The High Wycombe Guildhall is a public building located on the High Street of High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England.

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King's Lynn Guildhall

King's Lynn Guildhall, more fully referred to as the Guildhall of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, is a municipal building in Saturday Market Place in King's Lynn, Norfolk.

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Kingston upon Thames Guildhall

The Kingston upon Thames Guildhall is a municipal building in Kingston upon Thames in England.

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Lavenham Guildhall

Lavenham Guildhall is a timber-framed municipal building in Lavenham, Suffolk, England.

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Leicester Guildhall

The Guildhall in Leicester, England, is a timber framed building, with the earliest part dating from.

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Leuven

Leuven, also called Louvain (Löwen), is the capital and largest city of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region of Belgium.

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Lichfield Guildhall

The Guildhall is a historic building in Bore Street in Lichfield, Staffordshire in the United Kingdom.

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Liskeard Guildhall

Liskeard Guildhall is a municipal building in Pike Street, Liskeard, Cornwall, England.

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Livery company

A livery company is a type of guild or professional association that originated in medieval times in London, England.

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Llantrisant Guildhall

Llantrisant Guildhall (Neuadd y Dref Llantrisant) is a municipal building on Castle Green, Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.

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Looe Guildhall

Looe Guildhall is a municipal building in Fore Street in Looe, Cornwall, England.

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Lostwithiel Guildhall

Lostwithiel Guildhall is a municipal building in Fore Street in Lostwithiel, Cornwall, England.

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Low Countries

The Low Countries (de Lage Landen; les Pays-Bas), historically also known as the Netherlands (de Nederlanden), is a coastal lowland region in Northwestern Europe forming the lower basin of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta and consisting today of the three modern "Benelux" countries: Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands (Nederland, which is singular).

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Lydd Guildhall

Lydd Guildhall, also known as Lydd Town Hall and the Lydd Common House, is a municipal building in the High Street, Lydd, Kent, England.

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Lyme Regis Guildhall

Lyme Regis Guildhall is a municipal building in Bridge Street, Lyme Regis, Dorset, England.

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Makelaers Comptoir

The Makelaers Comptoir or (in modern Dutch spelling) Makelaarskantoor, the "brokers' office", is a 17th-century guildhall in Amsterdam, at the corner of Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal and the alley Nieuwe Nieuwstraat.

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Market town

A market town is a settlement most common in Europe that obtained by custom or royal charter, in the Middle Ages, a market right, which allowed it to host a regular market; this distinguished it from a village or city.

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Matheus de Layens

Matheus de Layens (d. Leuven, 3 December 1483) was a Brabantine architect from the 15th century.

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Meal

A meal is an eating occasion that takes place at a certain time and includes consumption of food.

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Mechelen

Mechelen (Malines; historically known as Mechlin in EnglishMechelen has been known in English as Mechlin, from where the adjective Mechlinian is derived. This name may still be used, especially in a traditional or historical context. The city's French name, Malines, had also been used in English in the past (in the 19th and 20th centuries); however, this has largely been abandoned.

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Merchant Adventurers' Hall

The Merchant Adventurers' Hall is a medieval guildhall in the city of York, England.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Middlesex Guildhall

The Middlesex Guildhall is an historic court building in Westminster which houses the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

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Much Wenlock Guildhall

The Much Wenlock Guildhall is a guildhall located on Wilmore Street in Much Wenlock, Shropshire.

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Museum

A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying and/or preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects.

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Newcastle-under-Lyme Guildhall

The Guildhall is a municipal building in High Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme.

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Newport Guildhall

Newport Guildhall is a large timber-framed municipal building in Newport, Shropshire, England.

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Newport Guildhall, Isle of Wight

Newport Guildhall is a municipal structure in the High Street in Newport, Isle of Wight, England.

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Northampton Guildhall

Northampton Guildhall is a municipal building in St Giles' Square in Northampton, England.

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Norwich Guildhall

Norwich Guildhall is a municipal building on Gaol Hill in the city of Norwich, Norfolk, England.

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Ostia Antica

Ostia Antica is an ancient Roman city and the port of Rome located at the mouth of the Tiber.

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Oswestry Guildhall

Oswestry Guildhall is a municipal building in Bailey Head in Oswestry, Shropshire, England.

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Peterborough Guildhall

The Guildhall is a municipal building in Cathedral Square, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England.

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Plymouth Guildhall

Plymouth Guildhall is located on Guildhall Square in the city centre of Plymouth, Devon, England.

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Poole Guildhall

Poole Guildhall is a municipal building in Market Street, Poole, Dorset, England.

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Portsmouth Guildhall

Portsmouth Guildhall is a multi-use building in the centre of Portsmouth, Hampshire, England.

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Preston Guild Hall

Preston Guild Hall is an entertainment venue in Preston, Lancashire, England.

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Renaissance

The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.

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Rochester Guildhall

The Rochester Guildhall is an historic building located in the High Street in Rochester, Kent, England.

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Saint-Omer

Saint-Omer (Sint-Omaars; Picard: Saint-Onmé) is a commune and sub-prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais department in France.

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Salisbury Guildhall

Salisbury Guildhall is an 18th-century municipal building in the Market Place, Salisbury, England.

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Saltash Guildhall

Saltash Guildhall is a municipal building in Fore Street, Saltash, Cornwall, England.

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Sandwich Guildhall

Sandwich Guildhall is a municipal building in the Cattle Market, Sandwich, Kent, England.

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Southampton Guildhall

Southampton Guildhall (branded the O2 Guildhall Southampton) is a multipurpose venue which forms the East Wing of the Civic Centre in Southampton, England.

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St Ives Guildhall

St Ives Guildhall is a municipal structure in Street An Pol, St Ives, Cornwall, England.

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St Mary's Guildhall

St Mary's Hall is a municipal building in Bayley Lane in Coventry, West Midlands, England.

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Stratford-upon-Avon Guildhall

Stratford-upon-Avon Guildhall is a historic building in Church Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.

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Swansea Guildhall

The Guildhall (Guildhall Abertawe) is one of the main office buildings of the City and County of Swansea Council.

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Thaxted Guildhall

Thaxted Guildhall is a municipal building in Thaxted, Essex, England.

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The Guildhall, Chard

The Guildhall is a town hall and community building in the town of Chard in the English county of Somerset.

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Thetford Guildhall

Thetford Guildhall is a municipal structure in the Market Place in Thetford, Norfolk, England.

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Tiel

Tiel is a municipality and a town in the middle of the Netherlands.

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Tolbooth

A tolbooth or town house was the main municipal building of a Scottish burgh, from medieval times until the 19th century. Guildhall and tolbooth are Seats of local government.

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Totnes Guildhall

Totnes Guildhall is a 16th-century Tudor historic guildhall, magistrate's court, and prison, in the town of Totnes, south Devon, in southwest England.

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Town hall

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, town, or other municipality. Guildhall and town hall are Seats of local government.

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References

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

Also known as Guild Hall, Guild house.

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Guildhalls

Seats of local government

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