The Guildhall
The Guildhall, Bore Street, Lichfield, WS13 6LX
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187740
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- The Guildhall
- Statutory Address:
- The Guildhall, Bore Street, Lichfield, WS13 6LX
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187740
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- The Guildhall
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Guildhall, Bore Street, Lichfield, WS13 6LX
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- The Guildhall, Bore Street, Lichfield, WS13 6LX
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Lichfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lichfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 11796 09481
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22 December 2025 to reformat the text to current standards
SK1109SE
1094-1/8/62
LICHFIELD
BORE STREET (south east side)
The Guildhall
06/03/70
GV
II
Guildhall. Parts probably C16 or C17 but extensively rebuilt c1707 and extended to rear 1742; early C19 alterations; hall rebuilt 1846-8, by Joseph Potter Jnr of Lichfield. Brick with ashlar facade; brick rear wing; tile roofs. Right-angle plan with earlier rear wing.
EXTERIOR: hall in Gothic style: two storeys. Offset plinth, cornice over ground floor; first floor offset buttresses and sill course, coped gable. Two pointed-arch entrances, that to left has triple-chamfered continuous moulding and hood to heavy door with strap hinges; that to right has hood and paired half-glazed doors with studs and strap hinges. First floor window has five-light plate tracery with hood and relief flower motifs, plain blind roundel above. Stair wing to left has offset ground floor and coped parapet; first floor has two-light single-chamfered plate tracery window. Plaque below window commemorates Coronation of George V and Mary and is flanked by their busts. Returns have two-light first floor windows with ashlar plate tracery. Rear wing of various dates, part to rear with rubble base and early brickwork over, incorporating blocked C16 window of three triangular-headed lights with brick mullions; C18 and C19 brickwork above; varied fenestration; left return has three sashed windows to first floor.
INTERIOR: passage with iron grille with gate and cells to left; hall has hammerbeam roof and panelling; arch to south has glazed infill over trefoil-headed arcading and benches used by quarter sessions; fireplace has segmental-pointed arch and C16 cast-iron fireback with Royal arms; 1811 stained glass to north window taken from north transept of Cathedral in 1891, figures of founders and patrons of the Cathedral and 1891 figure of Queen Victoria. Rear staircase has simple turned balusters, square newels and moulded handrail. c1710 cells to rear range have barrel vaults, segmental-headed entrances with original doors and shuttered and barred windows, benches and latrines; outer entrance and mullioned window now in later infill wing.
HISTORY: the hall was used by the Guild of St Mary and St John the Baptist until its dissolution, and by the Corporation from 1548.
Listing NGR: SK1179609481
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382611
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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