Maison Dieu was founded in the 1200s by Hubert de Burgh and passed to King Henry III in 1227 A long-awaited £10.5m renovation of a historic town hall ... of Victorian neo-Gothic architects ...

There are two town halls on Marienplatz ... oriented themselves on the Gothic original from the 15th century. Therefore, high windows were inserted and neo-Gothic gable elements were used.

A project to restore Manchester Town Hall could need further funding ... be "clear-sighted" on budget pressures. Work on the neo-gothic building in Albert Square, which was first built in 1868 ...