The Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers

www.armourershall.co.uk

Freemen's Dinner
21st March 2024, Armourers' Hall, City of London

     

Livery Dinner
22nd February 2024, Armourers' Hall, City of London

     

Livery Dinner
18th January 2024, Armourers' Hall, City of London

     

Court Christmas Luncheon
18th December 2023, Armourers' Hall, City of London

     

   

 

The Bermuda Society
24th October 2023, Armourers' Hall, City of London

 

CITO Lodge Ladies Night
January 21st 2023, Armourers' Hall, City of London

 

 

Livery Dinner
November 17th 2022, Armourers' Hall, City of London

 

Court Dinner
July 6th 2022, Armourers' Hall, City of London

 

Court Spring Dinner
May 5th 2022, Armourers' Hall, City of London

 

Livery Dinner
February 24th 2022, Armourers' Hall, City of London

 

Lancastrians Annual City Dinner
November 19th 2021, Armourers' Hall, City of London

 

Court Dinner
October 5th 2021, Armourers' Hall, City of London

 

Election of Sheriffs Luncheon
June 2018, Armourers' Hall, City of London

Court Spring Dinner
May 2018, Armourers' Hall, City of London

 

Freemen's Dinner
March 2018, Armourers' Hall, City of London

 

United Guild's Service Luncheon
March 2018, Armourers' Hall, City of London

 

Livery Dinner
February 2018, Armourers' Hall, City of London

 

Livery Dinner
November 2017, Armourers' Hall, City of London

 

 

Gauntlet Trust Subscribtion Supper
September 2017, Armourers' Hall, City of London

    

 

Company Business Luncheon
March 2017, Armourers' Hall, City of London

Freemen's Dinner
March 2017, Armourers' Hall, London

 

Tyndall Sermon Luncheon
April 2016, Armourers' Hall, City of London

Roger Tyndall was Master of The Armourers' Company in 1559, 1567 and 1577. His will requested that a “godly sermon" should be preached annually on St George's Day by "a godly learned preacher of King's College in Cambridge, or some other learned man", to be attended by the Livery.

Small Court Dinner
October 2015, Armourers' Hall, London

Court Dinner
January 2015, Armourers' Hall, London

  

Livery Dinner
November 2014, Armourers' Hall, City of London

  

Court Dinner
June 2014, Armourers' Hall, London

  

Livery Ladies' Dinner
June 2014, Armourers' Hall, London

  

Livery Dinner
May 2014, Armourers' Hall, London

  

Freemen's Dinner
March 2014, Armourers' Hall, London

  

Livery Dinner
February 2014, Armourers' Hall, London

  

Court Dinner
January 2014, Armourers' Hall, London

  

Court Christmas Luncheon
December 2013, Armourers' Hall, London

Dartmouth Entry September 1958 - 55th Anniversary Dinner
September 2013, Armourers' Hall, London

  

Court Dinner
June 2013, Armourers' Hall, London

  

Livery Dinner
May 2013, Armourers' Hall, London

  

Court Dinner
January 2012, Armourers' Hall, London

  

Court Ladies' Dinner
May 2011, Armourers' Hall, London

  

Armourers’ Hall

The site of the Hall was acquired by the Company in 1428 when it was described as the Dragon and Five Shops. The buildings were converted, extended and repaired, and in 1666 survived the Great Fire which was checked only a few yards away from it.

In 1795, the Hall was enlarged, but the Court decided in 1839 to rebuild the Hall completely which, together with its furnishings, cost £10,533. Essentially this building is the present Hall. It was designed by John Henry Good, the Company’s Surveyor.

On the 29th December 1940, during a major blitz on London, the surrounding area was devastated, but again the Hall survived. The Armourers and Brasiers’ Company are much indebted to an unknown fireman who, seeing the curtains of the Court Room ablaze, broke into the Hall and extinguished the flames. Although his identity may never be known, his quick thinking undoubtedly saved the Hall.

The Armourers & Brasiers’ Company

The Livery Companies of the City of London started as Craft Guilds, originally for social and religious interchange, but increasingly for the protection and improvement of their craft.

In 1322, in the reign of King Edward II, the Guild of St George of the Armourers was instituted, by ordinance of the City of London, which laid down regulations for the control of the trade. King Henry VI presented the Armourers with their first Royal Charter in May 1453.
The Company’s present Charter was granted in 1708 by Queen Anne, giving the Brasiers (workers in brass and copper), who had become involved with the Company as early as the 16th century, equal status with the Armourers.

As the Armourers to the Services, the Company played a special role in the defence of the City and its connections with the Armed Forces persist to this day, particularly the award of prizes for excellence to young service personnel. It also has long traditions of charity and hospitality.

Armourers & Brasiers’ Gauntlet Trust

The Trust was founded in 1979 and two thirds of its funds are devoted to the promotion of Materials Science, which is now the great pre- occupation of the Company. Materials Science is particularly appropriate to the Company because it is, like the making of armour and brass and copper ware, multidisciplinary and belongs to the area where pure science and engineering combine. The Company seeks to encourage education in science from primary to postdoctoral levels and has close connections with schools and universities throughout the United Kingdom. It also seeks to extend the use of materials science in commercial and industrial ways, has contacts with industry and has entered into partnership schemes with Rolls-Royce, Corus and AWE to further this. It works closely with the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, the Institute of Physics and the Royal Society of Chemistry Its latest venture is to institute a prize of for the best scheme for the commercial use of materials. The last third of the Trust’s funds is used for the ancient charitable interests of the Company: the care of the young and the elderly, the exercise of the Christian Faith and the study of Arms and Armour.

Court Dinner, Armourers' Hall, London
January 2010