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For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Main_Guard_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Main Guard (disambiguation)">Main Guard</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Guardhouse in John Mackintosh Square, Gibraltar</div><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Commercial_Square%2C_Dibdin.png/300px-Commercial_Square%2C_Dibdin.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="226" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Commercial_Square%2C_Dibdin.png/450px-Commercial_Square%2C_Dibdin.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Commercial_Square%2C_Dibdin.png/600px-Commercial_Square%2C_Dibdin.png 2x" data-file-width="614" data-file-height="463" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="text-align: center">1830s painting by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Colman_Dibdin" title="Thomas Colman Dibdin">Dibdin</a> depicting <a href="/wiki/John_Mackintosh_Square" title="John Mackintosh Square">Commercial Square</a>, with the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Exchange_and_Commercial_Library&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Exchange and Commercial Library (page does not exist)">Exchange and Commercial Library</a> (center, left) and the Main Guard (right, side view).</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image" style="text-align: center"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238443738">.mw-parser-output .locmap .od{position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .id{position:absolute;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .locmap .l0{font-size:0;position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pv{line-height:110%;position:absolute;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pl{line-height:110%;position:absolute;top:-0.75em;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pr{line-height:110%;position:absolute;top:-0.75em;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pv>div{display:inline;padding:1px}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pl>div{display:inline;padding:1px;float:right}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pr>div{display:inline;padding:1px;float:left}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .od,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .od .pv>div,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/7px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="7" height="7" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/11px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/14px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div></div></div><div style="padding-top:0.2em">Location of the Main Guard in <a href="/wiki/Gibraltar" title="Gibraltar">Gibraltar</a>.</div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#ededed">General information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Type</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Guardhouse" title="Guardhouse">Guardhouse</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Architectural style</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Georgian_architecture" title="Georgian architecture">Georgian</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Address</th><td class="infobox-data">13 <a href="/wiki/John_Mackintosh_Square" title="John Mackintosh Square">John Mackintosh Square</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Gibraltar" title="Gibraltar">Gibraltar</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system" title="Geographic coordinate system">Coordinates</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Main_Guard_(Gibraltar)&amp;params=36.14062_N_5.354147_W_type:landmark_region:GI"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">36°08′26″N</span> <span class="longitude">5°21′15″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct">&#xfeff; / &#xfeff;</span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">36.14062°N 5.354147°W</span><span style="display:none">&#xfeff; / <span class="geo">36.14062; -5.354147</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Current tenants</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Gibraltar_Heritage_Trust" title="Gibraltar Heritage Trust">Gibraltar Heritage Trust</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Owner</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Government_of_Gibraltar" title="Government of Gibraltar">Government of Gibraltar</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Main Guard</b> is a historic, 18th-century <a href="/wiki/Guardhouse" title="Guardhouse">guardhouse</a> in the <a href="/wiki/British_Overseas_Territories" title="British Overseas Territories">British Overseas Territory</a> of <a href="/wiki/Gibraltar" title="Gibraltar">Gibraltar</a>. While the exact date of its construction is unknown, it is the oldest building in <a href="/wiki/John_Mackintosh_Square" title="John Mackintosh Square">John Mackintosh Square</a>. The <a href="/wiki/French_people" title="French people">French</a> artist <a href="/wiki/Henri_Regnault" title="Henri Regnault">Henri Regnault</a> produced three paintings while a visitor at the Main Guard. After being displayed at the guardhouse for many years, they are now kept at the <a href="/wiki/Gibraltar_National_Museum" title="Gibraltar National Museum">Gibraltar National Museum</a>. The building's function has changed with the centuries. The Main Guard first served as a guardhouse; in the 20th century, it functioned as a <a href="/wiki/Fire_station" title="Fire station">fire station</a>, <a href="/wiki/Public_bathing" title="Public bathing">bath house</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Gibraltar" title="Government of Gibraltar">government offices</a>. Since 2001, the building has housed the <a href="/wiki/Gibraltar_Heritage_Trust" title="Gibraltar Heritage Trust">Gibraltar Heritage Trust</a> and underwent restoration in 2011. It hosts the tourist information office of Gibraltar. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_first_100_years">The first 100 years</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Main_Guard_(Gibraltar)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: The first 100 years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Main Guard is a historic building in Gibraltar, the British Overseas Territory at the southern end of the <a href="/wiki/Iberian_Peninsula" title="Iberian Peninsula">Iberian Peninsula</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It is located on the south end of what is now known as John Mackintosh Square, near <a href="/wiki/Gibraltar_City_Hall" title="Gibraltar City Hall">Gibraltar City Hall</a>, formerly referred to as <i>Connaught House</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-benady_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-benady-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-popular_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-popular-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-visitgibraltar_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-visitgibraltar-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> While the exact date of its construction is unknown, the Main Guard building is the oldest in the square.<sup id="cite_ref-friends_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-friends-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The first references to the building are found in documents which date to the mid-18th century. In 1748, a Gibraltar visitor who stayed at an inn on the <i>Parade</i>, a former name for John Mackintosh Square, wrote that the "grand guard house" was near his hotel and that it was "one of the neatest buildings" in the area. He described it as "but one storey high" which, based on his observation, was the usual height of the buildings in Gibraltar. He further related that in front of the guardhouse, on the Parade, was a "<a href="/wiki/Pillory" title="Pillory">whipping post</a>, where almost every day soldiers are brought to feel the <a href="/wiki/Scourge" title="Scourge">scourge</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-benady_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-benady-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Flagellation" title="Flagellation">Floggings</a> were meted out at the Parade as a form of <a href="/wiki/Military_justice" title="Military justice">military punishment</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-press_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-press-8"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the mid-18th century, John Mackintosh Square was used as a <a href="/wiki/Military_parade" title="Military parade">parade ground</a> known as the <i>Parade</i>. The building is shown in a plan drawn in 1750, but published in 1770, and referred to as the <i>Main Guard Room</i>. On a 1753 plan of the Parade, it was labelled as the <i>Main Guard</i>. Its location near the <a href="/wiki/King%27s_Bastion" title="King&#39;s Bastion">King's Bastion</a> meant that it sustained extensive damage during the <a href="/wiki/Great_Siege_of_Gibraltar" title="Great Siege of Gibraltar">Great Siege of Gibraltar</a> (1779–1783).<sup id="cite_ref-benady_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-benady-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The second storey present today was likely added when the guardhouse was rebuilt. In an 1830s image of Commercial Square, another previous name for John Mackintosh Square, the building is shown with two storeys.<sup id="cite_ref-benady_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-benady-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The 1830s painting <i>(pictured above)</i> by British artist <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Colman_Dibdin" title="Thomas Colman Dibdin">Thomas Colman Dibdin</a> (1810&#160;– 1893) shows the Main Guard with officers stationed outside, as well as the nearby <a href="/w/index.php?title=Exchange_and_Commercial_Library&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Exchange and Commercial Library (page does not exist)">Exchange and Commercial Library</a> on the eastern side of the square.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Every evening, the sentries in Gibraltar would receive their assignments at the Main Guard.<sup id="cite_ref-press_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-press-8"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Early 19th-century regulations in Gibraltar required that any inhabitant wandering in the streets after midnight without a permit was to be transferred to the Main Guard. In addition, any <a href="/wiki/Alcohol_intoxication" title="Alcohol intoxication">inebriated</a> soldier in the city was to be sent to that same guardhouse.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="More_recent_history">More recent history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Main_Guard_(Gibraltar)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2" title="Edit section: More recent history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Henri_Regnault_-_Autoportrait_avec_appui-main.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Henri_Regnault_-_Autoportrait_avec_appui-main.jpg/220px-Henri_Regnault_-_Autoportrait_avec_appui-main.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="264" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Henri_Regnault_-_Autoportrait_avec_appui-main.jpg/330px-Henri_Regnault_-_Autoportrait_avec_appui-main.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Henri_Regnault_-_Autoportrait_avec_appui-main.jpg/440px-Henri_Regnault_-_Autoportrait_avec_appui-main.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1530" data-file-height="1834" /></a><figcaption>Self-portrait of <a href="/wiki/Henri_Regnault" title="Henri Regnault">Henri Regnault</a> (1843–1871), c. 1863.</figcaption></figure> <p>The French painter Henri Regnault (30 October 1843&#160;– 19 January 1871), a native of <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a>, was a frequent visitor to the Main Guard in the late 1860s, as he was a friend of the officers.<sup id="cite_ref-amica_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-amica-13"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The artist <i>(pictured at left)</i> produced three paintings for the officers which, after being displayed at the guardhouse for many years, were removed for restoration and their current location is unknown. Other museums which hold his works include the <a href="/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_d%27Orsay" title="Musée d&#39;Orsay">Musée d'Orsay</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Museum_of_Art" title="Cleveland Museum of Art">Cleveland Museum of Art</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art" title="Metropolitan Museum of Art">Metropolitan Museum of Art</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-amica_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-amica-13"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Regnault died at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Buzenval_(1871)" title="Battle of Buzenval (1871)">Battle of Buzenval</a> in 1871 at the age of 27, defending his country in the <a href="/wiki/Franco-Prussian_War" title="Franco-Prussian War">Franco-Prussian War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-popular_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-popular-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-friends_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-friends-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-amica_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-amica-13"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Later that century, in 1885, the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Gibraltar_Directory&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Gibraltar Directory (page does not exist)">Gibraltar Directory</a> indicated that the guardhouse at Commercial Square had its guardroom and cells on the ground floor and the officers' room on the second floor. At the time of the 1896 directory, the building was still being utilised as a guardhouse.<sup id="cite_ref-benady_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-benady-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gibraltar_John_Mackintosh_Square_13.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Gibraltar_John_Mackintosh_Square_13.jpg/220px-Gibraltar_John_Mackintosh_Square_13.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="164" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Gibraltar_John_Mackintosh_Square_13.jpg/330px-Gibraltar_John_Mackintosh_Square_13.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Gibraltar_John_Mackintosh_Square_13.jpg/440px-Gibraltar_John_Mackintosh_Square_13.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5372" data-file-height="4008" /></a><figcaption>Main Guard in 2022</figcaption></figure> <p>By 1911, however, the building was no longer a guardhouse. Until late 1920, it was home to the <a href="/wiki/Military_Foot_Police" class="mw-redirect" title="Military Foot Police">Military Foot Police</a>, and, from February 1921 to March 1938, the building served as the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Gibraltar_City_Fire_Brigade&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Gibraltar City Fire Brigade (page does not exist)">City Fire Station</a>. After the construction of a new main fire station on <a href="/wiki/Alameda_Square" class="mw-redirect" title="Alameda Square">Alameda Square</a> in 1938, plans were developed to demolish the Main Guard and replace it with a new Art Deco-style building to house the Public Health Department. The plans were set aside at start of World War II.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Later in the 20th century, the Main Guard was used as government offices for licensing and payment of bills. Since 2001, the Main Guard has been headquarters for the Gibraltar Heritage Trust.<sup id="cite_ref-benady_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-benady-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-friends_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-friends-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-press_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-press-8"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In early 2011, the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Friends_of_Gibraltar&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Friends of Gibraltar (page does not exist)">Friends of Gibraltar</a>, also known as the Friends of Gibraltar Heritage Society, pledged to contribute <a href="/wiki/Gibraltar_pound" title="Gibraltar pound">£</a>10,000 to assist in the restoration of the Main Guard.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Main_Guard_(Gibraltar)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=3" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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