Engineering:Moot hall
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Short description: British meeting or assembly building for local issues
A moot hall is a meeting or assembly building, traditionally to decide local issues.[1]
In Anglo-Saxon England, a low ring-shaped earthwork served as a moot hill or moot mound, where the elders of the hundred would meet to take decisions. Some of these acquired permanent buildings, known as moot halls.[2]
Surviving moot halls include:
- Moot Hall, Aldeburgh
- Moot Hall, Appleby
- Moot Hall, Brampton
- Moot Hall, Daventry
- Moot Hall, Elstow
- Moot Hall, Hexham
- Moot Hall, Holton le Moor
- Moot Hall, Keswick
- Moot Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne
- Moot Hall, Newark-on-Trent
- Moot Hall, Maldon
- Moot Hall, Mansfield
- Moot Hall, St Albans
- Moot Hall, Steeple Bumpstead
- Moot Hall, Wirksworth
See also
- Kgotla
- Mead hall
- Meeting house
- Thing (assembly)
- Witenagemot
References
- ↑ Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. G. & C. Merriam. 1913. https://www.websters1913.com/words/Moot-hall.
- ↑ The Columbian Cyclopedia. 20. 1897. https://books.google.com/books?id=WjUKAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP257.
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