Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Survivals of Roman Architecture in Britain, Vol. 13
The new Guildhall, which happens to stand on the site of the Roman Praetorium is itself in some degree an evolution of the Tolsey which it replaces, inasmuch as it preserves the principal feature in the older building, which was the placing of the Council Chamber in the upper storey, instead of on the ground ?oor.
This arrangement was the result of experience and it is clear that if the Tolsey has thus helped to determine the form of the newer building, it must in turn have received some impress from its predecessor: what it retained, with what it discontinued, make up the evolution we shall endeavour to follow.
It is remarkable that while the City of Chester has been so far destroyed in the disturbances it has suffered, that even the main cross of the streets is displaced, yet it has retained the style of building which provides such covered ambulatories on a larger scale than any other town in Britain; for in the Rows at Chester, with their two storeyed covered passages, we have the parallel evolution to that which is offered by the Doge's Palace in Venice. The only differences are those arising from the purposes of a commercial building being different to those of one intended for official occupation [plate IV., fig.
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