King's Lynn Arts Centre

The guildhall was created for the Guild of St George at the beginning of the 15th century. In 1406 the Guild of St George, founded in 1376, acquired re-claimed land on the bank of the River Great Ouse to build its hall. Constructed between 1410 and 1420, the hall was in use by 1428. In about 1500 the structure was strengthened by the addition of buttresses along the north wall. Following the Dissolution of the Guilds in 1547 control of the guildhall passed to the Lynn Corporation which retained ownership until 1814. In the late 17th century the brick-vaulted wine cellar was made in the undercroft, and access to this was continued under the later warehouses towards the river. The hall…

The Guildhall of St George is the largest surviving medieval guildhall in the country. It is a Grade I listed building. Built of brick, and of two storeys with a gable roof, its dimensions are 32.6 x 8.8 m (107 x 29 feet). The building occupies a long, narrow site which was once a burgage plot between King Street and the river. The theatre stands on the raised upper floor, above an undercroft. The roof is to a hammerbeam design.