The Worshipful Company of Chartered Surveyors is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London.
The organisation was granted Letters Patent in May 1977 and a Royal Charter 13 June 2013.
[1] The Company promotes surveying by awarding scholarships.
Its motto is Modus ab initio, which is Latin for "Method from the very beginning" and its church is St Lawrence Jewry[2] The landscape painter Richard Howard Penton's drawings in Halls of the Livery Companies of the City of London were re-published in 1981 to mark their grant of livery status.
[3] The Company does not have its own livery hall and meets and dines in a selection of the 35 different livery halls in London.