Worshipful Company of Cutlers
Motto | Pour parvenir a bonne foy |
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Location | Cutlers' Hall, 4 Warwick Lane, The City. EC4M 7BR |
Date of formation | Thirteenth century |
Order of precedence | 18th |
Master of company | Dr. Carrie Herbert MBE |
Website | http://www.cutlerslondon.co.uk/ |
The Worshipful Company of Cutlers is one of the ancient
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The trade of
Heraldry
It has been claimed the elephant and castle crest gave rise to a
The Company's motto was originally Pervenir a bonne foy, which later became Pour parvenir a bonne foy, an Anglo-Norman phrase meaning To succeed through good faith.
The Company's livery hall is located on a site in Warwick Lane once occupied by the Royal College of Physicians, near Newgate Street. It was designed by T. Tayler Smith, the Company's surveyor, and was opened in 1888. It is a brick building, the façade decorated with a terracotta frieze depicting the processes of knife-making by the sculptor Benjamin Creswick, who had worked as a knife-grinder in Sheffield.[3]
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City of London arms at Cutlers' Hall: Domine dirige nos (Lord guide us)
References
- ^ An Historical Essay on the Livery Companies of London by Richard James Cheeswright [1]
- ISBN 978-1848687806.
- ^ "Cutlers' Hall". The Worshipful Company of Cutlers. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
External links
- The Cutlers' Company
- Cheeswright, Richard James (1881). . An Historical Essay on the Livery Companies of London. Croydon: Richard James Cheeswright. pp. 25–50.