Lorimers Hall

Lariner's Hall, Fore Street.

[Lorimers Hall.]

The Lorimers-Company have built a Hall upon the said Wall. …

Here [at the passage from the Postern into London Wall street] is Lorimers Hall, a pretty neat Building, adjoining to London Wall.

Lorimers Hall

In the month of April 1704, the ministers and messengers of thirteen churches in and about the city of London, held an Assembly at Lormiers Hall, which continued three days. This assembly was opened with a suitable sermon in publick, by the reverend Mr. John Piggott. And after they had, in prayer sought the lord for his direction and blessing on their deliberations, they chose Mr. Richard Adams moderator, and then proceeded to read the letters from the churches, and seriously debate the matters therein contained, and sent their agreements to each of the churches. All which they submitted to be approved, or refused, as should seem most meet to them.
     This Assembly agreed to the following preliminaries or rules, for the regulation of their debates. … —Thomas Crosby, The history of the English Baptists, from the Reformation to the Beginning of the Reign of King George I Volume 4 (London 1738), p. 4.

Glasiers, were incorporated in the reign of queen Elizabeth. … They have no hall since the fire of London, but meet at Lorimers hall.—Joseph Nicol Scott and Nathan Bailey, A New Universal Etymological Dictionary (London, 1772).

In the year 1675, Mr. William Collins, and Dr. Nehemiah Cox were ordained joint elders of the Baptist church in Petty-France. Upon the death of Dr. Cox. Mr. Thomas Harrison was chosen assistant to Mr. Collins. It appears from an ancient manuscript, that the church was again under persecution, in 1683, and deprived of their meeting-house. In the month of April, 1701, the congregation quitted their meeting-house in Petty-France, and removed to another in Artillery-street, Spitalfields. About a year previous to this removal, an attempt was made to introduce singing into public worship; but without effect. However, after the death of Mr. Collins, in 1702, the attempt was renewed with somewhat better success, though it caused a division. The discontented went off and formed a separate society at Turners'-Hall, where they chose Mr. Ebenezer Wilson, of Bristol. A little before this, the society in Spitalfields received a considerable augmentation, by the union of another church of the same persuasion, at Lorimers'-Hall.—Walter Wilson, The History and Antiquities of Dissenting Churches and Meeting Houses, in London, Westminster, and Southwark Volume 2 (London, 1808), p. 181.