Goldsmiths' Hall

Goldsmiths' Hall is a Grade I listed building at the junction of Foster Lane and Gresham Street in the City of London.

In 1665, Samuel Pepys viewed the funeral of Sir Thomas Vyner from Goldsmiths' Hall.

Marble statues by Samuel Nixon of children representing the Four Seasons stand on pedestals on the lower flight of the grand staircase, which The Gentleman's Magazine described as “a work of the highest merit ... such beautiful personifications.”[5][6] The hall is entirely detached[clarification needed] and occupies an entire block.

[8] The Illustrated London News declared “’The Goldsmiths’ is the most magnificent of all the Halls of the City of London.”[9] Those present at the opening dinner in 1835 included the Duke of Wellington and Robert Peel.

[2] In 1941 a bomb exploded in its southwest corner, but the building largely survived and was restored after the Second World War.