Joiners Hall
56-58 St Ann Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire - England, UK
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Craftsmen long banded together in guilds, each with its own meeting place. The joiners of Salisbury built themselves this eye-catching guildhall in the 17th Century. Where better to show off their skills? The façade is enlivened with carvings, including grotesque figures which support the windows. Among them are hermaphrodites with beards and breasts. The Guild of Joiners met here until early in the 19th Century. The building was rescued by the National Trust in 1898, but the interior had already been much altered.
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