More information : (TQ 31858120) Stationers' Hall (NAT)
The hall is dated about 1670 refaced in 1800, on the site of the
London house of Lord Abergavenny, of which some masonry may still
survive in the walls of the Hall. The company acquired the house
in 1606 and it was burnt in 1666. Grade 1.
(9) STATIONERS' HALL (Parish of St. Martin Ludgate) stands on the W.
of Stationers' Hall Court and on the S. of Amen Court, and is of one
storey with a basement to the Hall-block, three storeys to the Court-
Room block and one to the storehouses. The walls of the hall have a
chalk core to the lower parts and are of brick above; the other
buildings are of brick with some Portland stone dressings and the
roofs are covered with tiles and slate. The core of the walls of the
basement may perhaps be part of the house of Lord Abergavenny,
acquired by the Company and reconstructed in 1611. It was burnt in
the Great Fire of 1666 and rebuilt in or about 1670. In 1800 the
E. side of the hall was refaced and the windows altered. More
modern alterations include the building of the E. wing on the site
of the late 17th-century structure and various alterations to the
Court-Room block.
The buildings are disposed round a central courtyard having the Hall
on the E. with various apartments in the basement under it; the
Court-Room block on the N. with the Court Room on the first floor
over a Loggia and having several apartments above it; and the
Storehouses on the W. The courtyard was used, at any rate in part,
as the churchyard of St. Martin Ludgate, which forms the S. side
of the quadrangle. A modern wing projects to the E., from the N.
end of the hall, and contains the Stock Room.
(For further details see Inventory). (4)
Scheduled. (5)
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