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]
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