The Guildhall

The Guildhall is the oldest municipal building still in use in England today. It's also bloody hard to get a good picture of, coming as it does at a particularly narrow spot on the high street. Inside a deceptively low doorway is the main chambers, decorated in the high Victorian's version of medieval style. The stainglassed windows bear the armorial signets of the various high mayors up to the Edwardian period. Subsequent mayors must be contented with having their arms embalzoned on the surrounding seats- sometimes sharing with as many as four other sets of arms from previous tenants. Exeter is a city of firsts, also holding England's oldest public garden, Northernhay Gardens. These gardens hold the remains of Rougement Castle and were the site of the imprisonment of Alice Molland, the last person executed for witchcraft in England.