guild hall
The guild house of the Lamplighters, who hold the lamp right of Gnomon: a square building of ochre stone with a foundry at the back where lamps are cast and an oil cistern beneath the court. In the long hall upstairs hang the licence boards of every lit street in the city, a brass tag for every lamp, and at the head of the hall the Lamplighter-General's desk, from which a lamp allowance is granted, a licence revoked, or a whole street put out. The lamp-hour tokens are struck here: small brass di...
Located in The Ledger of Shadows.