Memorials
The Bowyers' Window at St Botolphs, Bishopsgate
The Company traditionally holds its service for the installation of their new Master in the church of St Botolph without Bishopsgate. After the two bombs at St Mary Axe and Bishopsgate that caused great damage to the Church, the Company wished both to help in the rebuilding and to strengthen its ties with the Church. Thus was born the idea of a Memorial Window ...more
St Nicholas Cole Abbey
The Church is first mentioned in 1144 and was once known as St Nicholas-behind-Fish Street. Old Fish Street Hill runs along the east end and in Elizabethan times there was a fish tank fed by the river attached to the outside wall ...more
The Bowyers Panel in the Oriel Window of Tallow Chandlers' Hall
The Oriel window was restored in 1969 and the shields of nineteen Livery Companies and Guilds, including the Bowyers using the Hall at that time were generous contributors to the cost of the window ...more
Arms at Isley Walton
The arms of the Company can still be seen on a number of the estate buildings ...more
The Bowyers Carving at Bluewater
Bluewater Shopping Centre, which was completed in 1999, was built in a redundant quarry near to Greenhithe, Kent. The centre, which is one of the top shopping centres in Europe, has three double-storey arcades, one of which is known as the "Guildhall" ...more
The Old Library, Guildhall
At the Court Meeting held on 30th September 1872 at the London Tavern, an application was considered from the Middlesex Archaeological Society. It was resolved that the Company would pay £10 10s 0d for a stained glass window in the new Guildhall Library on its satisfactory completion ...more
Portrait of Alderman Finnis, Mansion House
Visitors to the Mansion House, on entering by the main entrance on Walbrook, are greeted by the kindly face of Alderman Finnis, whose portrait is hanging in the lobby. The oil on canvas (99cm x 127cm), which depicts Thomas Quested Finnis in the robes of Sheriff of London in 1849, was painted by Thomas Roods. (Source: Collage, City of London) ...more
Coat of Arms on the roof of Guildhall
The restored Guildhall roof of 1862 was destroyed by enemy action in December 1940. A temporary steel roof was erected which was in place by 1943, when Winston Churchill received the Freedom of the City, but was still in use for the Coronation Banquet in 1953 ...more
Monument to Alderman Sainsbury, Market Lavington
Visitors to the parish church in Market Lavington, Wiltshire, can admire the memorial to the earliest known Bowyer Lord Mayor ...more
Bowyer Tower at the Tower of London
The Bowyer Tower is one of the 21 towers which together form the Tower of London complex which was built by Henry III who employed Henry de Riques and John of Gloucester as chief architects ...more
Bowyer Row
Bowyer Row was an alternative name for Ludgate Street which, since 1865, has been part of Ludgate Hill. The earliest reference from 1359 is to Ludgatstrete commonly known as Bowiarresrowe. ...more
