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A sunny street scene in Georgetown, Guyana, with a man walking near the City Hall Royalty Free Stock Photo

Building of the Town Hall in Georgetown Royalty Free Stock Photo

Detail of the Town Hall in Georgetown Royalty Free Stock Photo

View of an old wooden building of Gothic type with a spire and turrets. Royalty Free Stock Photo

View of the old, fabulous building with a spire and towers, in the Gothic style. Royalty Free Stock Photo

View of the ancient wooden Gothic-type City Hall with turrets, spire on a sunny day Royalty Free Stock Photo

Georgetown City Hall is a nineteenth-century Gothic Revival building located on the corner of Regent Street and Avenue of the Republic in Georgetown, Guyana. The building was designed by architect Reverend Ignatius Scoles in 1887, and was completed in June 1889. Georgetown City Hall is often described one of the finest examples of Gothic architecture in the Caribbean. Georgetown City Hall currently occupies the status of tentative listing as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is built in timber, possesses three floors and has a rectangular shape. The tower - one of the building's most notable features - is topped by a square, pyramidal, flat-topped spire with wrought-iron crenelations around the perimeter of the spire's apex. The spire is surrounded by conical pillars. The building has a Hammer-beam roof (a feature of Medieval Gothic architecture in England). The building is 27.1 metres long, 17.4 metres wide and 29.3 metres high (from Wikipedia).