Although the building is no longer there, it is, since the unveiling of a plaque in our 650th anniversary year, possible to stand close to the position of the former Scriveners’ Hall.

In June 1628 Sir Arthur Savage of Cardington, Viscount Savage and Richard Millard, Citizen and Goldsmith of London” sold a building in the parish of St Mary Staining in the City of London, to Charles Bostock, Citizen and Scrivener of London for the sum of £810. The building is described as a tenement with a garden and having belonged at one time to Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, it was known as Bacon House. It abutted on the church and churchyard of St Mary Staining at the east, Little Silver Street on the west, Oat Lane on the south and a tenement thought to belong to Sir Ralph Rowlett to the north. The area now lies in Noble Street.

The building was destroyed in the Great Fire and though a new building was erected the cost of doing so meant that the Master, Wardens and Court sought opinion about whether the Letters Patent allowed the Company to levy a tax on all members for the rebuilding. The advice that the tax could be levied, but must be “reasonable”. How the money was actually raised is unknown, except that a building was built and in use by 1671. At the time the building was sold to the Coachmakers’ Company in 1703 for £1,600 there was a mortgage on it, so this points to there having been acute financial difficulties in the time leading up to the sale. The sale included a clause that the Scriveners’ Company would have the use of the Hall for five days per year at a peppercorn rent for 51 years.

A plaque marking the approximate location of the Hall was unveiled in Noble Street on 17 July 2024.