Salisbury Guildhall

Just looking around the outside, when I visited Salisbury over a weekend I didn’t see this open to the public. So I’m unsure if there are dates you can go in as I’ve seen photos of the inside. Salisbury Guildhall is an 18th-century municipal building in the Market Place, Salisbury, England. It is a Grade II* listed building and is the meeting place of the Salisbury City Council. The first guildhall, known as the “Bishop’s Guildhall“, was built on the initiative of the Bishop of Salisbury, Simon of Ghent, in around 1314. It was so-called because this was the place where the bishop would exercise his feudal rights. A second building, known as the “Council House“ was built by the Merchants Guild to the north of the original building in the Council House was burnt down in a fire at a banquet, it was rebuilt, with a gift from Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor, in 1780. In 1785 the bishop gave up his rights as clerk of the market and in retur
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