guild house
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upright=1.35|thumb|Guildhall, London|Guildhall, City of [[London]] A guildhall, also known as a guild hall or guild house, is a historical building originally used for tax collecting by municipalities or merchants in Europe, with many surviving today in Great Britain and the Low Countries. These buildings commonly become town halls and in some cases museums while retaining their original names.
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- As town hall in the United Kingdom
- List of guildhalls in the United Kingdom
- As meeting houses for guilds
- In the Low Countries
- In the Netherlands
- In Belgium
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upright=1.35|thumb|Guildhall, London|Guildhall, City of [[London]] A guildhall, also known as a guild hall or guild house, is a historical building originally used for tax collecting by municipalities or merchants in Europe, with many surviving today in Great Britain and the Low Countries. These buildings commonly become town halls and in some cases museums while retaining their original names.
==As town hall in the United Kingdom== In the United Kingdom, a guildhall is usually a town hall: in the vast majority of cases, the guildhalls have never served as the meeting place of any specific guild. A suggested etymology is from the Anglo Saxon "gild, or "payment"; the guildhall being where citizens came to pay their rates. The London Guildhall was established around 1120. For the Scottish municipal equivalent see tolbooth.