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Lavenham Guild Hall, Suffolk
Lavenham Guildhall is a timber-framed municipal building in Lavenham in Suffolk.
The Guildhall is a Grade I listed building has been called one of the finest timber-framed buildings in Britain.
It was built around 1530 by the Guild of Corpus Christi, a religious organisation of local merchants. It was used by the Guild as a meeting place until the organisation was dissolved in 1560.
It was originally built as a religious meeting place for merchants who grew wealthy as the cloth trade boomed, over the centuries the Guildhall has also been used as a prison, workhouse, chapel, inn, school and social club for US troops stationed nearby during the Second World War.
The streets of Lavenham were used as a background for the scenes in Godric's Hollow in the film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1. Lavenham Guildhall was transformed into Harry Potter's parents' derelict house and in the film, Harry visits his parents' graves and their house in Godric's Hollow.
Lavenham Guild Hall, Suffolk
Lavenham Guildhall is a timber-framed municipal building in Lavenham in Suffolk.
The Guildhall is a Grade I listed building has been called one of the finest timber-framed buildings in Britain.
It was built around 1530 by the Guild of Corpus Christi, a religious organisation of local merchants. It was used by the Guild as a meeting place until the organisation was dissolved in 1560.
It was originally built as a religious meeting place for merchants who grew wealthy as the cloth trade boomed, over the centuries the Guildhall has also been used as a prison, workhouse, chapel, inn, school and social club for US troops stationed nearby during the Second World War.
The streets of Lavenham were used as a background for the scenes in Godric's Hollow in the film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1. Lavenham Guildhall was transformed into Harry Potter's parents' derelict house and in the film, Harry visits his parents' graves and their house in Godric's Hollow.