Merchant Taylors' Hall
Timber-framed medieval guildhall beneath a crown-post oak roof, still owned by its tailors' company.
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This guide to Merchant Taylors' Hall in York is about appetite and money: the old duty that made York's mayors feed the city's leading citizens every week at their own expense, and what that duty did to the office. It takes in the Georgian years when the Lord Mayor waited on a new Mansion House, and a guild of tailors who knew how to fill a room, from Race Weeks to rope dancers and a harlequin pantomime. Best heard standing by the minstrel gallery at the west end.
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