Penzance Selects- Market House
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The Lloyds bank building in market Jew street is called the market house. It was completed in 1838 and was originally built to house a market and the guildhall. The basement below the guildhall originally contained cells for prisoners and the first floor was used as a grammar school. The building was used as a corn exchange and also as a theatre. The building is now occupied by Lloyd’s bank. There is a statue of Sir Humphry Davy outside the building. He invented the miner's safety lamp.
