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© Mr Geoffrey Carver
IoE Number:
382611
Location:
THE GUILDHALL, BORE STREET (south east side)
LICHFIELD, LICHFIELD, STAFFORDSHIRE
Photographer:
Mr Geoffrey Carver
Date Photographed:
03 October 1999
Date listed:
06 March 1970
Date of last amendment:
06 March 1970
Grade
II
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LICHFIELD
SK1109SE BORE STREET
1094-1/8/62 (South East side)
06/03/70 The Guildhall
GV II
Guildhall. Parts probably C16 or C17 but extensively rebuilt
c1707 and extended to rear 1742; early C19 alterations; hall
rebuilt 1846-8, by Joseph Potter Jnr of Lichfield. Brick with
ashlar facade; brick rear wing; tile roofs. Right-angle plan
with earlier rear wing.
EXTERIOR: Hall in Gothic style: 2 storeys. Offset plinth,
cornice over ground floor; 1st floor offset buttresses and
sill course, coped gable. 2 pointed-arch entrances, that to
left has triple-chamfered continuous moulding and hood to
heavy door with strap hinges; that to right has hood and
paired half-glazed doors with studs and strap hinges. 1st
floor window has 5-light plate tracery with hood and relief
flower motifs, plain blind roundel above. Stair wing to left
has offset ground floor and coped parapet; 1st floor has
2-light single-chamfered plate tracery window. Plaque below
window commemorates Coronation of Edward VII and Alexandra and
is flanked by their busts. Returns have 2-light 1st floor
windows with ashlar plate tracery.
Rear wing of various dates, part to rear with rubble base and
early brickwork over, incorporating blocked C16 window of 3
triangular-headed lights with brick mullions; C18 and C19
brickwork above; varied fenestration; left return has 3 sashed
windows to 1st floor.
INTERIOR: Passage with iron grille with gate and cells to
left; hall has hammerbeam roof and panelling; arch to south
has glazed infill over trefoil-headed arcading and benches
used by quarter sessions; fireplace has segmental-pointed arch
and C16 cast-iron fireback with Royal arms; 1811 stained glass
to north window taken from north transept of Cathedral in
1891, figures of founders and patrons of the Cathedral and
1891 figure of Queen Victoria. Rear staircase has simple
turned balusters, square newels and moulded handrail.
c1710 cells to rear range have barrel vaults, segmental-headed
entrances with original doors and shuttered and barred
windows, benches and latrines; outer entrance and mullioned
window now in later infill wing.
HISTORY: The hall was used by the Guild of St Mary and St John
the Baptist until its dissolution, and by the Corporation from
1548.