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The Tribunal in Glastonbury, Somerset, England, was built in the 15th century as a merchant's house. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The history of the building is not well documented, although the majority of the present stone house was constructed in the 15th century on the site of a 12th-century wooden building. The current front wall was added in the 16th century. It has been used as a merchant's house and possibly a shop and school. It was thought that it was the venue for court proceedings, hence the title Tribunal, however there is no evidence this ever occurred. One of the ground floor rooms still has the window and ceiling panels from the Elizabethan era. The front room upstairs has an arched braced, wooden, truss roof. The building is currently in the guardianship of English Heritage and used as a tourist information centre. On the first floor is the museum of the Glastonbury Antiquarian Society which houses artefacts from Glastonbury Lake Village including the "Glastonbury Bowl". The bottom part of the bowl dates from the Iron Age and the upper part was added in the 1st century AD. ==History== The house owes its name to the fact that it was formerly mistakenly identified with the Abbey’s tribunals, where secular justice was administered for Glaston Twelve Hides.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= History and research Glastonbury Tribunal )〕 The name may have been first used by John Collinson in his ''History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset'' in 1791, however whwen investigated by Richard Warner in 1826 he could not identify where the name had originated. It was also thought to be the site of trials by Judge Jeffreys for the Bloody Assizes after the Monmouth Rebellion.〔 The current building was constructed in the 15th century on the site of a wooden building dating from the 12th century. In the 16th century a new facade was added to the original building.〔 It is possible that the stonework and window of the front wall were removed from the abbot's lodgings behind the great kitchen of the Abbey as similar features can be identified in a 1712 engraving, and it is known that the building was ruined and without its front wall by 1723.〔 The door is original and above it are a Tudor rose〔 and the arms of Richard Beere who was Abbot of Glastonbury from 1493 to 1524. It is possible that the building was used as a hospice in the time of Richard Beere as Abbot as a document of 1716 describes "Beere's Hospital" although it is uncertain whether this is the same building.〔 Clearer documentary evidence shows that it was used as a "commercial school for young gentlemen" in the second half of the 18th century.〔 It is now in the guardianship of English Heritage and managed by Glastonbury Tribunal Ltd.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Tribunal, Glastonbury」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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