Slate plaque № 11684
Connection to This Location
# The Plumbers' Hall at Cannon Street Standing at Cannon Street Station, you're positioned where one of London's oldest professional guilds maintained their headquarters for nearly four centuries, making this patch of ground sacred to the craft of plumbing itself. From the medieval period through t...
Location
Cannon Street Station
Inscription
The Worshipful Company of Plumbers Ordinances 1365 Grant of Arms 1588 Between here and the river once was Chequer Yard where for centuries stood the hall of the mysterie or art of the plumbers of London. The first was destroyed in the great fire of 1666. Rebuilt, it continued in use until demolished to make way for the railway in 1863 The Company yet flourishes root and branch In God is all our hope 1983