The Company is pleased to invite its Consorts and their guests to a luncheon on Monday 15th September, 2025, to celebrate the work of the Court Consorts.
CUTLERS’ HALL
4 WARWICK LANE
LONDON EC4M 7BR
Dress Code: Business Attire
Tickets cost: £120 per person, including VAT, for a three-course meal including wine.
The WCoBM Court Consorts and their guests are warmly invited to our annual Court Consorts’ Luncheon, which will be held in the elegant surroundings of Cutlers’ Hall. This is an occasion for a friendly get together, and to express our thanks in particular, for the support given by Consorts and to celebrate the achievements of women!
Our guest speaker, Past Master Dame Fiona Woolf, DBE, DStJ, DL, will be giving a speech at the Luncheon entitled “Lord Mayor or Lady Mayor?”
To Book: If you wish to attend, please book your ticket through this website (using the purchasing form at the bottom of this page) before Friday 5th September (after which date no refunds can be issued). Please note: Tickets for this event are available only to Court Consorts and their guests.
A Brief History of Cutlers’ Hall:
Cutlers’ Hall is the home of the Worshipful Company of Cutlers. The word “Cutler” signifies a maker or seller of knives and weapons with a cutting edge and later the emphasis shifted from implements of war to cutlery and domestic items such as razors and scissors.
The earliest recorded reference to Cutlers’ Hall dates from 1285; it is the fifth of their buildings erected in 1882 – its former hall having been demolished when its land was acquired by the Metropolitan and District Railway. It had itself replaced an earlier building destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666.
The present building contains on the outside of the wall facing Warwick Lane a finely carved terracotta frieze by the Sheffield sculptor Benjamin Creswick. The most prominent feature of the entrance hall is a stained-glass window erected in memory of Captain F.G. Boot a great benefactor of the company. It shows Henry V granting the company its original Charter in 1416. The Court Room contains portraits of company members who served as Lord Mayor of London and a Coat of Arms which survived the Great Fire. Its stunning Livery Hall boasts a splendid Victorian hammerbeam roof. Around the walls are shields carried by members of the court in the Lord Mayor’s processions in 1834 and 1984 when company members were elected as Mayor.