Building    From 1662 

Glovers' Hall

Categories: Liveries & Guilds

The History and Antiquities of Dissenting Churches and Meeting ..., Volume 3, 1810, gives the history of Glovers' Hall, as follows:

In Beech Street, at Beech Lane, originally part of a palace belonging to the Abbots of Ramsey. It was then owned by Sir Drew Drewrie from whom it devolved to the Glovers' Company. It was then taken over by the non-conformists who, at about the time of the Restoration fitted it up as a place of public worship. Used by the Sandemanians in the late 18th century. From about 1800 it was used for secular purposes and was still in that state in 1810.

All very interesting but it gives no dates for when the building was used by the Glovers' Company, nor when it was demolished. The Glovers split off from the Cordwainers in 1349, receiving a Royal Charter in 1639. The Glovers website says "In 1662 a Hall was established in Beech Lane, Cripplegate... by the end of the {18th} century it {membership} had fallen to 14 and the Hall was given up for lack of funds to maintain it."

No picture of the hall is available but the Company have published photos of their splendid glove collection.

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Glovers' Hall

Commemorated ati

Glovers' Hall

Near this site stood Glovers' Hall, 17th - 19th Century. Corporation of London

Read More

Other Subjects

Worshipful Company of Poulters

Worshipful Company of Poulters

From The Poulters Charter: In 1727 John Newman left his property in Budge Row to the Poulters Company who, we believe, always used it to generate income rather than for their own purposes. The Pou...

Group, Liveries & Guilds

2 memorials
Sir Robert William Dibdin, JP, FRGS

Sir Robert William Dibdin, JP, FRGS

Robert William Dibdin was born on 15 June 1848 in Bloomsbury, the second of the six children of the Reverend Robert William Dibdin (1805-1887) and Caroline Dibdin née Thompson (1812-1897). His pate...

Person, Law, Liveries & Guilds, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Founders' Hall

Founders' Hall

The Founders' first hall was built in what is still called "Founders' Court" in 1549. It was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 and rebuilt. Our picture shows the Hall in 1848, when leas...

Building, Liveries & Guilds

3 memorials
Building of Fellowship Porters Hall

Building of Fellowship Porters Hall

Waymarking says this "It was the home of the Fellowship Porters who, towards the end of their existence as a Company, seem to have transacted their business at 22 Beer Lane.  They were formed of tw...

Event, Liveries & Guilds

1 memorial