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Merchant’s Adventurer’s Hall
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“One of the best preserved medieval guild halls in the world, The Merchant Adventurers' Hall in York is listed as an ancient monument. Uniquely it still contains rooms serving all three functions of a medieval guild – there is the Great Hall for business and social occasions, The Undercroft or Hospital for charitable works, and the Chapel for religious matters. The striking, timber-framed Hall contains fine displays of paintings, furniture, and silver. Members of the Merchant Adventurers’ Company, founded in 1357, were mainly merchants selling woollen cloth to northern Europe. They travelled to far-flung areas like the Baltic and Iceland and returned home to York with exciting foreign goods like mirrors, seal meat and squirrel skins. Today York’s ‘Merchant Adventurers’ are more likely to be teachers, architects, accountants or bankers. But, although the Company no longer trades, it still runs charities, conducts services in the Chapel, and – most importantly - holds feasts. Centuries ago these feasts would have included lots of venison, ale, and it’s still pretty much the same today – in fact the Venison Feast is the main one of the year. The ancient Hall in held in trust, enabling visitors to enjoy its history, and learn about the part that it once played in the creation of wealth for Northern England. ”
Fossgate, North Yorkshire
YO1 2XD
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Oct-Mar: Daily 9:30-3:30
Apr-Sep: Mon-Thur 9-5, Fri & Sat 9-3:30, Sun 12-4
Adult: £2.50
Concessions: £2
Family: £6
Child: £1
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