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Coat of arms of Worshipful Company of Founders Crest On a wreath Or and azure, A fiery furnace proper, two arms of the last issuing from clouds on the sinister side also proper, the sleeves azure, the hands holding a pair of closing tongs sable taking hold of the melting pot in the furnace likewise proper. Mantled gules, doubled argent. Escutcheon
The Churchill Arms is managed by Fuller's [4] and has a Winston Churchill interior theme. [5] The Churchill Arms claims to have been the first London pub with a Thai restaurant, having served such food since the early 1990s or earlier. [6] The Thai restaurant is decorated with live flowers and plants.
Under an order issued by the Lord Mayor of London on 10 April 1484 (known as the Billesdon Award), the Company ranks in sixth or seventh place (making it one of the "Great Twelve City Livery Companies") in the order of precedence of City Livery Companies, alternating annually with the Merchant Taylors' Company; these livery companies have borrowed Chaucer's phrase "at sixes and sevens" to ...
Coat of arms of Middlesex, 1910-1965 (absorbed into Greater London) Coat of arms of London County Council , 1914-1965 Coat of arms of the Greater London Council , 1965-1986
Although a ‘mistery’ (i.e. craft) of masons may have existed beforehand, the elections to the Common Council in 1376 provide the first secure evidence for the existence of an organised guild of masons in London, and by 1389, if not earlier, there was a fraternity of masons in London too, so the roots of the company were embedded at that time and developed during the following century into ...
Coat of arms of the Cutlers' Company. John Stowe stated that the arms of the Cutlers of London ("Gules, three pairs of swords in saltire argent hilts and pommels or) were granted in 1476 by Thomas Holme, Clarenceux King of Arms, and the crest "an elephant bearing a castle" by Robert Cooke (c.1535-1592/3), Clarenceux. [1] The supporters are two ...
The Company's first hall was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666, [3] and its second was bombed during the Blitz in 1940. Rebuilt in 1960, the present Brewers' Hall is located at Aldermanbury Square in the City of London , being the Company's HQ as well as available on a private hire basis for events.
The Salters' arms in a stained glass window at Derry Guildhall. The Company received a grant of arms in 1530 from Thomas Benolt, [19] then its crest and supporters in 1591 from Robert Cooke, both Clarenceux King of Arms. The Salters' Co. arms are blazoned: Escutcheon: Per chevron Azure and Gules three Covered Salts Argent garnished Or.