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Open all year Monday to Friday, (closed Good Friday & August Bank Holiday Monday), 10am-5pm. Saturday 10-12.30pm. Admission charge; restaurant and tearoom; wheelchair access to Gallery.
Built about 1410 to 1420 is a magnificent flint building and is the oldest surviving medieval Guildhall in England. The Great Hall is 101ft long and 29ft wide on the upper floor and it still retains its original roof. Some of the rarest and finest civic treasures in Britain are housed in the undercroft, itself a prison in the 19th century. The magnificent silver and enamel King John Cup is over 650 years old, the Red Register is one of the oldest paper books in existence, the King John Sword and four maces.
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- Landmark