The Guildhall York
Fifteenth-century guild hall, rebuilt within its surviving stone walls after wartime fire.
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This guide to the Guildhall in York starts with a sum that refuses to balance, set inside a hall first raised for the city's medieval guilds. It touches the Civil War day a king's ransom was counted out in this room, and the spring night in nineteen forty-two when German bombers crossed the city. Stand among the oak pillars, where you can see both the walls and the roof.
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