For the first twenty-five years of its incorporation, the Company did not possess a Hall and the Court usually met at the Painter Stainers’Hall by Queenhithe. Thereafter, until the purchase of the Company’s own Hall, the Court assembled at the Jewell Chamber at Guildhall or in taverns.

In 1703 the Company bought from the Worshipful Company of Scriveners for £1,600 their Hall in Noble Street which had been built on a site formerly owned by Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper to Queen Elizabeth I. The Hall, which was rebuilt in 1843 and 1870, was totally destroyed in an air raid on the 29th December 1940.

The whole of the Company’s Library and many of its possessions, including the Master’s chair, which dated from 1670, were lost. However, the plate, other treasures and the original model of the Royal State Coach which was made by Sir William Chambers and submitted to King George III in 1761 in order that he might approve of the Coach for his wedding to Queen Charlotte in 1762 had been removed.

In 1978 Past Master Bernard Boxall, CBE, presented the Company with a new Master’s Chair and in 1980 Past Master P M H James arranged for the Company’s Charter to be restored and framed for display purposes.