Pinners' Hall

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

The Hall of the Pinners or Pinmakers' Company.


On the west side of Old Broad Street at No.54. In Broad Street Ward (P.O. Directory).

Occupies the site of the east end of the Augustine Friars Church.

First mention: 1667 (L. and P. Chas. II. 1667, p.68).

In the 18th century a portion of it was fitted up with pulpit and pews and used as an Anabaptist Meeting House (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 112, and Rocque, 1746).

Hall demolished 1798.

Now occupied as offices and business houses.

There seems to have been a building described as " Pynners Hall " in 1556 in "Adelstrete" in parish of St. Alban, in which year it was given to the Plasterers' Company (q.v.)

(Ct. H.W. II. 660).

See Plasterers' Hall.

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