Page 26 - Real Rochdale Issue 05 Summer 2019
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The Great Hall in Rochdale Town Hall is adorned with a large fresco of the signing of Magna Carta by artist Henry Holiday
















































































                                                Magna Carta Libertatum, commonly called Magna Carta (also                       Henry Holiday (17 June 1839 – 15 April 1927) was an English
                                                Magna Charta; “Great Charter”), is a charter of rights agreed                   historical genre and landscape painter, stained-glass designer,
                                                to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on                       illustrator and sculptor. He is considered to be a member of
                                                15 June 1215.                                                                   the Pre-Raphaelite school of art.




          PHOTO: MALCOLM JOURNEAUX                                                                                                                                                                            MODEL: MARY DAVIDSON
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