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Want a pardon for your crimes? Just pay up!

During the building of London's Guildhall in the 1400s, people could get their offenses pardoned by donating money to the construction fund.

1400s·GuildhallMemorials of Old London. Volume 1 (of 2)

Imagine dining in a crypt with hundreds of singing birds and armored men!

In 1851, the neglected Guildhall crypt was transformed into a lavish supper-room for Queen Victoria, complete with trees, flowers, singing birds, and men in armor holding gas torches.

1800s·GuildhallMemorials of Old London. Volume 1 (of 2)

They found a medieval cross... in a cellar?!

Fragments of the famous Cheapside Cross, pulled down in 1643, were discovered in a deeply recessed window of a Guildhall crypt in 1902, alongside medieval stone coffin-lids.

1900s·GuildhallMemorials of Old London. Volume 1 (of 2)