St Mary's Guildhall

The Coventry Telegraph have announced the latest proposals for our Guildhall. The only good thing I can see is for the medieval kitchen to be restored, but the originally planned rooftop bar (which was bad enough) is now to be dropped in favour of a bar in the Armoury (the large room upstairs behind the Minstrel's Gallery). Access to this will be via a spiral staircase in the Great Hall!!! As if that wouldn't be incongruous enough, it's hardly wheelchair friendly either - something I thought was particularly important nowadays? But of course, our Coventry Society's objections are being ignored, as usual. Some democracy we live in!

I take it that it will be a new spiral stair case and not the existing one? Not so bad accessing the bar from the bottom but not show eashy on the shway down hic. It talks about a lift. The obvious place for that would be from the kitchen as modern entrances already break into the armoury end wall. That end of the kitchen isn't so interesting either.

And I can see a few names being etched into the monumental brickwork. If you are thinking of whizzing down on the handrail Helen it's going to be a bit rough on your posterior

I'd be more worried about landing on my face. I would hope that nobody would be allowed to get squiffy enough to start carving their name anywhere

Close up of the tapestry beneath the North Window of St Mary's Hall - postcard.

Will paste this direct in from FB so won't be here long, but not sure about this?