On their own website the Cordwainers declare that they have had in fact only 5 halls, not the excessive 6 stated on the plaque. The last was built in 1909 but suffered bomb damage in WW2, which can be seen in a City of London image. Our picture shows the penultimate hall, designed by Sylvanus Hall in 1788. We can find no information about the preceding three halls except that one was lost in the Great Fire along with many of the Company’s records.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Cordwainers' Hall
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Cordwainers' Hall
On this site stood six successive Livery Halls of the Cordwainers' Company fr...
Other Subjects
Sir James Michael Yorrick Oliver
James Michael Yorrick Oliver was born on 13 July 1940, his birth being registered in the 3rd quarter of 1940 in the Worthing Registration District, Sussex (now West Sussex). His mother's maiden nam...
Person, Liveries & Guilds, Lord Mayor, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
Turners' Hall, second
The Guild of Turners began sometime between 1295 and 1310. King James I granted the first Royal Charter in 1604. In the 15th and 16th centuries almost all the turners in London lived in one ver...
1 memorial
Worshipful Company of Plumbers
Ordinances 1365, Grant of Arms 1588. The Plumbers' Hall used to stand in Chequer Yard, where Cannon Street station now stands. The first hall was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. Rebuilt, it co...
4 memorials
J. A. Brewster
Master of the Worshipful Company of Butchers, 1961 - 1962. Another escapee from nominative determinism! (see Brunel.)
1 memorial
Coopers' Hall
Lost in the Great Fire. In 1670 a second hall was built on the same site. This was pulled down in 1867 so that a smaller Hall could be built and the remainder of the land was sold to the Corporatio...
1 memorial
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Carpenters' Hall plaque - rebuilding
EC2, London Wall, 1 Throgmorton Avenue
The plaque refers to the unveiling day being 'Election Day'. There was no General Election in 1956. The Lord Mayor's election to office d...
2 subjects commemorated,
8 creators
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