Jonjon explores Leicester... "Guildhall"

Glance: "Guildhall", Leicester

When you come across timber beams in all kinds of wave-like positions (except vertical), you know its significance immediately – the guildhall, the central fantasy structure that’s worth the conservation. Built c. 1390 for the gentries from the Guild of Corpus Christi.

See yourself: "Guildhall", Leicester

And it’s not just the wall. Floor tiles here also pretend to ride on a sine curve – the feel of authenticity, an avenue of memories stretching backwards, and the mystical.

So mind your step.

(You can also find interesting fusty houses in London: try Cheam’s Whitehall Historic House. And if you’re just in for the vintage floorings - Handel & Hendrix.)

If you like how the Newarke Houses tell you what it’s like for an everyday Leicesterman, it is here that you’d get a better glimpse from the rich-and-powerful’s perspective. And way~ way~ back~ many centuries ago, a time for pickpockets to loom while you’re tripping over the stone walks of Medieval Leicester. And the gentries, and the parish, and kings (a very Leicester theme after the craze from Richard III’s discovery).

Now go upstairs to find yourself the trip that’s 600 years old.

Time is asset: save it for later with 25-min museum tours. Or find yourself in my novel, check out the photo of the day and finish it off with a secret prize.

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