Goldsmiths Hall

The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths is one of London’s oldest livery companies, and is one of the “Great Twelve” most prestigious of those companies. Its grand hall occupies a whole city block near St. Paul’s Cathedral. It combines a working assay office, at which much of the UK’s precious metal is hallmarked, with a set of grand and ornate banqueting, meeting and function rooms.

The grand, marble-covered entrance hall.

King Charles is a member, and so the hall is home both to a large portrait of him and the ceremonial cup that the Company commissioned for his coronation.

King Charles’s ceremonial coronation cup. Its symbolism combines both references to Highgrove and to Charles’s campaigning on climate change issues.

St. Dunstan is the patron saint of goldsmiths, among other things, and this gilded wooden figure of the saint once adorned the Company’s boats, used in processions down the Thames.

The Livery Hall is the grandest room in this grandest of buildings, with an ornate ceiling and five enormous chandeliers.

The Company’s governing body, the Court of Assistants, meet here in the Court Room.