Cordwainers' Hall was the livery hall of the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers, the City of London livery company for Cordwainers (workers in fine leather) from 1316 until its destruction in 1941.[1]
The hall stood in St. Paul's Churchyard, facing Cannon Street.[1] Five successive halls were built on the site, the last three were rebuilt in 1670, 1788, and 1910. A plaque marks the site.[1] The 1788 hall was built by Sylvanus Hall, with the front of the hall decorated in stone by Robert Adam.[2] The front of the hall featured a stone medallion of a "country girl spinning with a distaff...and of the thread of cordwainers or shoemakers." The arms of the Cordwainers company was in the pediments of the building.[2]
The hall was destroyed during World War II in the London blitz, on 10–11 May 1941.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b c d John Kennedy Melling (2003). London's Guilds and Liveries. Osprey Publishing. pp. 53–. ISBN 978-0-7478-0559-5.
- ^ a b John Timbs (1855). Curiosities of London. Dav. Bogue. pp. 362–.