Building    From 1483  To 1865

Hall of the Worshipful Company of Masons

Categories: Liveries & Guilds

From The Masons: "Between 1483 and 1865 the Masons’ Company Halls (both the pre and post Great Fire) stood on the site of what is now 12 Mason’s Avenue. A certain amount is known about both buildings, and although lost in the Great Fire, in his book of 1894, Edward Conder writes of the 1st (mediaeval) hall:  '…on this plot of ground was built the hall and certain tenements; that there was a gateway serving as an entrance, with a small chamber or lodge over it for the porter; that this opened on a small courtyard, which served as a storage for forfeited stone; that at one side of the courtyard was the hall, a long building with a screen, and doubtless a minstrel’s gallery over, together with a parlour for the meetings of the court, and a kitchen, with three chambers and a garret over them, usually occupied by the clerk or beadle'.

The Hall was rebuilt on the same site, but the Company later fell into decline and decided to sell it ; Conder records the disposal with depressing finality:  '1865. Oct. 5. Sale of the Hall. This day the Court of Assistants agreed that the offer to purchase the freehold of the Company’s hall be accepted, and that the clerk be instructed to prepare a contract to carry this resolution into effect'.  And so ended four hundred years of history."

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Hall of the Worshipful Company of Masons

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