Norwich Guildhall

Norwich Guildhall is a large flint building at the top of the market that served as the city's seat of government from the early 15th century until 1938. It is one of the largest and finest medieval civic buildings in England outside London, and its dark flint exterior, banded with freestone, is characteristic of Norfolk building tradition.

The building is now used as a tourist information centre and for civic events. The interior retains a council chamber with an original 15th-century hammerbeam roof. Worth stepping inside if it's open; entry is free.

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The Guildhall served as the seat of Norwich's city government for over 500 years, from 1413 until the new City Hall opened in 1938. The cells beneath it held prisoners awaiting trial at the adjacent courthouse; one of those prisoners was Robert Kett, leader of Kett's Rebellion, who led a peasant revolt of 16,000 men against land enclosures in 1549. He was tried here, condemned, and hanged from Norwich Castle.

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