History

Wax Chandlers Hall is located in the heart of the City in Gresham Street on a site that the Company has owned since 1501.

Home to the Worshipful Company of Wax Chandlers, the current Hall is the sixth design on the same site and was substantially rebuilt in 1954 having lost previous versions to the Great Fire of London, the Blitz and Victorian town planners.

The granite faced ground floor was the only part of the Hall to escape destruction in the World War II bomb damage and was incorporated in the sixth Hall that was completed in 1958.

As a consequence of the redevelopment of the site to the east of the site, the Hall became freestanding on that side for the first time. The east wall was refaced to a design by Foster Associates in 2003 and has benefited from a major recent internal refurbishment, completed in 2007.

Like many other livery companies, the Company acquired its Hall as a permanent meeting place and somewhere to administer its affairs, and these continue to be its main functions today.