Abingdon Guildhall - Roysse Room ceiling
Abingdon Guildhall is a collection of buildings originally associated with the town's abbey (which was suppressed and demolished at the Reformation) but much rebuilt and adapted since then. The Roysse Room began as the hall of the Hospital of St John, which looked after the sick and other visitors to the abbey. In the 1560s it was taken over by John Roysse's grammar school, eventually being bought by the town in the 1870s. The ceiling plasterwork in seventeenth-century style apparently dates from a restoration of 1911.
I visited the Guildhall as part of the Heritage Open Days 2010.
Abingdon Guildhall - Roysse Room ceiling
Abingdon Guildhall is a collection of buildings originally associated with the town's abbey (which was suppressed and demolished at the Reformation) but much rebuilt and adapted since then. The Roysse Room began as the hall of the Hospital of St John, which looked after the sick and other visitors to the abbey. In the 1560s it was taken over by John Roysse's grammar school, eventually being bought by the town in the 1870s. The ceiling plasterwork in seventeenth-century style apparently dates from a restoration of 1911.
I visited the Guildhall as part of the Heritage Open Days 2010.