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 A  U3A visit  to the Skinners Hall and 120 Fenchurch Street 2nd Mar 2026 lead by Carole Taylor on  a bright sunny day.

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 Map of the Area

Owl

A detail

Gracechurch Street reflection

The Foyer of 120 Fenchurch St with ever changing ceiling

Play it yourself

View from the roof garden

Walkway

Looking down

Towards St Pauls

Sitting in the sunlight

A glimpse of the "Gherkin"

The "Walkie-Talkie"

Towards  Tower Bridge

Clipped Hedge

The Old Church raised

Fen Court

Great Tower Street

Fenchurch Street Station

 

Cafe Nero for lunch

Towards "All Hallows at the Tower" church

Art "Lupine Flower"

The Ship Tavern

St Margaret Patten's

The Nave

Enclosed pew

The floors are numbered, were they precast?

Fine horses

 Skinners Hall plus their flag

Gate to Skinners Hall

Entrance tunnel

See Link at top of the page for the Guild History

Outer Hall

"Charity, Education, Hospitality" the Guild motto

Memorial

Not Grinling Gibbons work

Chandelier from Catharine the Great during Hanseatic times

Ornate Carpet

Twelve Mirrors

The Banqueting Hall

Lined by paintings

Carpet with Lynx and "Ermine" patterns. Ermine is three dots and a tail below.

The only plate salvaged from the burnt down medieval Skinners Hall

Wall Bracket

One of the paintings

Silver Cupboard

One of Five Silver Cocks

Committee Room

Silver Snuff Box

Thomas Smythe first Governor of the East India Company

His Wife

Multi-tone gong

Court Room

Lounge

Master's Seat

Printing Press

Gallery

General Monk......

Arms of Charles II

A Terrace

Another Chandelier

The Undercroft

Mediaeval Strong Box

Part of the Wine Cellar

Remains of the emptied out Undercroft . The arch spanned the Walbrook river that runs underneath

Silver Bowl

Barrel store in the Undercroft that was filled with rubble after the Great Fire of London 1666.

One of the Oldest Bell in UK cast in 1190

Lynx (more like a lion)

Tour ending with a cup of tea!

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