Entrance Hall
Stepping in from the street, the visitor steps back to the 13th century, entering by the original doorway of Britain’s oldest civic building.
Built in 1220, The Guildhall was provided for the people as a meeting place, a community chamber and a public facility and has always been in the control of the governing bodies of the town. It marks a beginning of Bury St Edmunds as a secular community distinct from the Abbey’s control.