Butchers' Hall

Names

  • Butchers' Hall
  • Butchers Hall

Street/Area/District

  • Pudding Lane

Maps & Views

Descriptions

from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)

Butchers' Hall. Northwards on the East side [of Pudding Lane] is Butchers Hall, a pretty handsome small Building, with a Free Stone paved Court before it, and hath a back Passage into Pudding Lane.

… The Butchers inhabiting in [Blowbladder] Street, have their Slaughter Houses in Butchers Hall lane, formerly called Stinking lane, from the Nastiness of the Place; but now it is kept pretty clean, and here the Company of Butchers have their Hall.

from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)

Butchers-Hall, Pudding-Lane,—at 34, four doors on the L. from 5, Eastcheap.

from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)

Butchers'-Hall, Pudding-lane, is four doors on the left hand from No. 5, Eastcheap. It has been lately rebuilt after having been destroyed by fire in 1829. The company of butchers appears to be of great antiquity, for in the 26th of Henry II. A.D. 1180, it was fined for setting up a guild without the king's licence. They were not incorporated till the 3d of James I. who on the 16th September, 1605, granted them a charter by letter patent, under the name of "The Master, Wardens and Commonalty of the Art or Mystery of Butchers of the City of London." It is a livery company and stands the twenty-fourth on the city list.