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Leicester’s Guildhall

Leicester’s Guildhall dates back to medieval times and would have been a building of importance during the time of Richard III. The Great Hall, built in 1390, was a meeting place for the Guild of Corpus Christi. This Guild was the richest in the town and a powerful force in medieval Leicester. The Guild had their own altar in the Church of St Martin (now Leicester Cathedral) and used the Great Hall for banquets at times of high festivals.

Originally the Great Hall had a beaten earth floor which would have been laid with rushes and heated by an open hearth, with smoke rising to the roof. Leicester’s Guildhall in its present form incorporates a later Tudor extension to the original Great Hall and the former Magistrates Courts and Town Gaol.

It is now home to the Leicester Museum & Galleries Medieval Exhibitions as well as the history of the Guildhall and is next to Leicester Cathedral containing the Richard III reinterment and adjacent to the fabulous King Richard III and Visit Leicester Visitor Centre.

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Sunday . . #Easter #Kriii (at King Richard III)