St Mary's Guildhall

I was out of the room when they entered the Guildhall so I missed that nuance of the 'C' for 'G' but knew it was in fact 'G'. Edited by member, 14th May 2020 3:37 pm

More Medieval glass from Coventry

The Coventry Telegraph have announced the latest proposals for our Guildhall. The only good thing I can see is for the medieval kitchen to be restored, but the originally planned rooftop bar (which was bad enough) is now to be dropped in favour of a bar in the Armoury (the large room upstairs behind the Minstrel's Gallery). Access to this will be via a spiral staircase in the Great Hall!!! As if that wouldn't be incongruous enough, it's hardly wheelchair friendly either - something I thought was particularly important nowadays? But of course, our Coventry Society's objections are being ignored, as usual. Some democracy we live in!

I take it that it will be a new spiral stair case and not the existing one? Not so bad accessing the bar from the bottom but not show eashy on the shway down hic. It talks about a lift. The obvious place for that would be from the kitchen as modern entrances already break into the armoury end wall. That end of the kitchen isn't so interesting either.

And I can see a few names being etched into the monumental brickwork. If you are thinking of whizzing down on the handrail Helen it's going to be a bit rough on your posterior

I'd be more worried about landing on my face. I would hope that nobody would be allowed to get squiffy enough to start carving their name anywhere