Former Halls
(1) In 1485 the Curriers’ Company had its hall in the parish of St Mary Axe, by London Wall in Aldgate Ward.
(2) Circa 1583 Curriers’ Hall was situated close to the site of the Boar’s Head, on a property which had been devised to the Company in 1516. It stood in the parish of St Alphage, on the south side of the street leading along London Wall; Boar’s Head Alley lay between Philip Lane and Little Wood Street. Curriers’ Hall was one of the 44 (out of 52) Livery Halls destroyed in the Great Fire of London early in September 1666.
(3) Curriers’ Hall in 1670 was perhaps the most attractive of the Company’s five halls on the Boar’s Head site.
(4) In 1820 a new and smaller hall was rebuilt to the east of the old one.
(5) The Curriers’ Hall begun in 1873 and completed in the following year extravagantly was demolished in 1875 before it could even be furnished.
(6) Between 1874 and 1876 a new Curriers’ Hall was built in the French Gothic style. It abutted on London Wall. It was sold in 1921 and destroyed by enemy action on 29 December 1940.
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