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Suitable for all your needs. For hosting up to 120 people.

Available rooms

Expect a refreshingly different meeting and dining experience at a venue within easy walking distance
from Moorgate, Bank and Liverpool Street Station

Austin Friars

The Furniture Makers' Hall
A venue with history

Built in 1882 by E A Gruning,
the original tenants were Fruhling and Goschen, a banking house.

Furniture Makers’ Hall, was built in 1882 by E A Gruning, although the style is a lot earlier.

The original tenants were Fruhling and Goschen, a banking house founded in Leipzig that had come to London sometime around 1800 and it was a George Goschen that actually began work on the building in 1853. He was later to become 1st Viscount Goschen, MP for the City of London, a director of the Bank of England, First Lord of the Admiralty twice, President of the Royal Statistical Society, Chancellor of Oxford University, and Chancellor of the Exchequer for five years from 1887-1892.
When London was hit by German bombing in 1940, the damage to number 12 was mostly superficial with damage to the windows and the front of the building. Contrast this with the church across the street which, having stood since 1350, was completely destroyed.
Today the Hall is popular venue for Conferences, Meetings, Exhibitions & Banquets and serves a discerning and broad clientele from inside and outside the Square Mile.