Parish Clerks' Hall

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

On the south side of Silver Street at No.24, in Cripplegate Ward Within, and west of Wood Street (P.O. Directory).


The first Hall was in Bishopsgate Street, near the Angel, but in Stow's time (1603) the Guild or Company had lately erected one at the north-west corner of Brode lane (S. 241-2), in Vintry Ward, having lost their old hall in Bishopsgate Street. Stow says at the suppression of the brotherhood, time Ed. VI. , the hall was given to Sir Robert Chester and was pulled down by him (S. 172).

This second hall in Brode Lane was destroyed in the Great Fire 1666, and the hall was then rebuilt between Silver Street and Wood Street. Damaged by fire in 1844 and rebuilt with a new entrance in Silver Street.

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