Merchant Adventurers' Hall

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The Merchant Adventurers' Hall is a medieval guild–hall in the city of York. The major part of it was built in the fourteenth century by the Guild of Our Lord Jesus and the Blessed Virgin Mary which became the Company of Merchant Adventurers in the sixteenth century. The main part of the building consists of the Great Hall and the undercroft.

The Great Hall is a timber-framed structure and was completed by 1368. Due to its width, the roof of the hall is of two spans with a row of large central timber posts. The undercroft, like the Great Hall, is divided in two by a row of timber posts. The undercroft also provides access to a small attached chapel.

[edit] External links

• The Merchant Adventurers' Hall

[edit] References

• Pevsner, Nikolaus; and Neave, David [1972] (1995). Yorkshire: York and the East Riding, 2nd edition, London: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-071061-2.