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Plymouth Guildhall, the Glossary

Plymouth Guildhall is located on Guildhall Square in the city centre of Plymouth, Devon, England.^[1]

26 relations: Assizes, Beaux-Arts architecture, Bernard Montgomery, Devon, Edward VII, Edward William Godwin, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, England, European Union Chamber Orchestra, Gobelins Manufactory, Gothic Revival architecture, Henry Willis & Sons, Jacobean architecture, Julian Lloyd Webber, Listed building, Pipe organ, Plymouth, Plymouth Blitz, Plymouth Civic Centre, Plymouth Law Courts, Queen (band), Raphael, Rock music, Status Quo (band), The Who, World War II.
City and town halls in Devon
Government buildings completed in 1874
Guildhalls in the United Kingdom

Assizes

The assizes, or courts of assize, were periodic courts held around England and Wales until 1972, when together with the quarter sessions they were abolished by the Courts Act 1971 and replaced by a single permanent Crown Court.

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Beaux-Arts architecture

Beaux-Arts architecture was the academic architectural style taught at the in Paris, particularly from the 1830s to the end of the 19th century.

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Bernard Montgomery

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976), nicknamed "Monty", was a senior British Army officer who served in the First World War, the Irish War of Independence and the Second World War.

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Devon

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

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Edward VII

Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.

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Edward William Godwin

Edward William Godwin (26 May 1833 – 6 October 1886) was a progressive English architect-designer, who began his career working in the strongly polychromatic "Ruskinian Gothic" style of mid-Victorian Britain, inspired by The Stones of Venice, then moved on to provide designs in the "Anglo-Japanese taste" of the Aesthetic movement in the 1870s, after coming into contact with Japanese culture in the 1862 International Exhibition in London.

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Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Emerson, Lake & Palmer (informally known as ELP) were an English progressive rock supergroup formed in London in 1970.

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England

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

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European Union Chamber Orchestra

The European Union Chamber Orchestra (EUCO) is a chamber orchestra with funding from the European Commission, founded in 1981 and initially known as the European Community Chamber Orchestra.

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Gobelins Manufactory

The Gobelins Manufactory is a historic tapestry factory in Paris, France.

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Gothic Revival architecture

Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half of the 19th century, mostly in England.

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Henry Willis & Sons

Henry Willis & Sons is a British firm of pipe organ builders founded in 1845.

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Jacobean architecture

The Jacobean style is the second phase of Renaissance architecture in England, following the Elizabethan style.

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Julian Lloyd Webber

Julian Lloyd Webber (born 14 April 1951) is a British solo cellist, conductor and broadcaster, a former principal of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and the founder of the In Harmony music education programme.

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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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Pipe organ

The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurised air (called wind) through the organ pipes selected from a keyboard.

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Plymouth

Plymouth is a port city and unitary authority in Devon, South West England.

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Plymouth Blitz

The Plymouth Blitz was a series of bombing raids carried out by the Nazi German Luftwaffe on the English city of Plymouth in the Second World War.

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Plymouth Civic Centre

Plymouth Civic Centre is the former headquarters of Plymouth City Council on Armada Way in Plymouth, Devon, England. Plymouth Guildhall and Plymouth Civic Centre are city and town halls in Devon.

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Plymouth Law Courts

Plymouth Law Courts, also known as Plymouth Combined Court Centre, is a Crown Court venue which deals with criminal cases, as well as a County Court, which deals with civil cases, in Armada Way, Plymouth, England.

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Queen (band)

Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1970 by Freddie Mercury (lead vocals, piano), Brian May (guitar, vocals), and Roger Taylor (drums, vocals), later joined by John Deacon (bass).

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Raphael

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), now generally known in English as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.

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Rock music

Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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References

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