Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks

The Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks is one of the Guilds of the City of London.

Although they have no place in the order of precedence, which governs only liveried companies, The Master, Wardens, Assistants and Brethren of the Parish Clerks of the Parish Churches of the City and Suburbs of London and the Liberties thereof, the City of Westminster, the borough of Southwark and the fifteen Out-Parishes adjacent, are among the oldest City companies.

Individual members held property on behalf of the Fraternity near Bishopsgate in 1274.

A further twenty one parishes in Middlesex and Surrey within the bills of mortality were added between 1639 and 1825.

Supporters On either side and standing to the front on the capital of an Ionic Column Or and Angel gazing outwards proper winged Or vested of a tunic Argent garnished Or draped over the interior shoulder with a mantle Azure and holding with the interior hand a Trumpet baldrick-wise the bell upwards all gold.

Clerk's Place off Bishopsgate, described by Tudor London historian John Stow in his 1598 Survey of London as the entry to the common hall of the parish clerks.
Site of the first hall of the Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks, demolished 1553
Second grant of arms of 1582
The Company's third hall at 24 Silver Street 1671-1940