Scriveners' Hall
Names
- Scriveners' Hall
- Bacon House
- Scriveners Hall
Street/Area/District
- Noble Street
Maps & Views
- 1666 London after the fire (Hollar & Leake, 1669?): Scriveners Hall
- 1720 London (Strype): Scriveners' Hall
- 1736 London (Moll & Bowles): Scriveners Hall
Descriptions
from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)
Scriveners' Hall
On the east side of Noble Street, in Aldersgate Ward (Leake, 1666–Strype, 1755).
Formerly called "Bacon House" (q.v.).
The Company of Scriveners were forty-fourth in rank of the City Guild, and incorporated 1616 as the Society of Writers of the City of London.
Being reduced to low circumstances they sold their Hall to the Company of Coachmakers.
See Coachmakers' Hall.
from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)
Scriveners Hall, is on the E. side of Noble Str. a handsome Building where you enter the Room called the Hall by a spacious arched Aperture in a stately Screen adorned with Columns and Pilasters of the Corinthian Order. They were Incorporated Anno 1616, and are a Master, 2 Wardens, 24 Assistants, and 38 on the Livery &c. Their Arms are, Azure an Eagle with Wings expanded holding in his Mouth a Penner and Inkhorn, standing on a Book all Or. See Coach-makers.
from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)
Scriveners, a fraternity anciently denominated the Writers of the court letter of the city of London, was incorporated by letters patent granted by King James I. in the year 1616, by the name of The Master, Wardens, and Assistants of the society of Writers of the city of London.
This company is governed by a Master, two Wardens, and twenty-four Assistants, with fifty-three livery-men, who upon their admission pay a fine of 5l.
The company of Scriveners being reduced to low circumstances, thought proper to sell their hall in Noble street to the Coachmakers company.