Guildhall of Corpus Christi, Lavenham

Résumé du livre

This early 16th-century timber-framed building overlooks and dominates the market place in Lavenham, Suffolk. There is an attractive walled garden with dye plants, 19th-century lock-up and morturary. This is a richly illustrated history of one of the finest timber-framed buildings in Britain.This building provides a standing testimony to the importance of the cloth industry and the role of the guilds in medieval Suffolk.