Grocers' Hall

Grocers' Hall
   At the north end of Grocers' Hall Court, Poultry, with a passage west to Old Jewry. In Cheap Ward (P.O. Directory).
   First mention: "Grocershall," 1465-6 (Ct. H.W. II. 554).
   Other names : Tenement or inn (hospitium) of the Grocers in Old Jewry, 1429 (Cal. P.R. H. VI. 1429-36, p. 78).
   Stow says the site in Coneyhope lane was purchased in 1411 by the Custos or Gardian of the Grocers of Lord Robert Fitzwaters and that then the foundation of the hall was laid (S. 265-6), 1427 (MS. entry, Heath, p. 4).
   The Bank of England was kept there in Strype's time (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 33).
   The hall was burnt in the Fire and rebuilt.
   The' present hall was erected 1798-1802. Architect, T. Leverton.
   Altered and rebuilt 1827.
   Roman pavement found under the south-eastern angle of the Hall at a depth of 17 feet 6 ins.

A Dictionary of London. . 1918.

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