"Originally founded by King Henry VIII in 1514 to manage shipping safety along the Thames, what is today Trinity House was officially called (deep breath!)... "The Master, Wardens, and Assistants of the Guild, Fraternity, or Brotherhood of the most glorious and undivided Trinity, and of St. Clement in the Parish of Deptford-Strond in the County of Kent." They long decamped from Deptford to the City though - and the current building was constructed in the 1790s,"
"A lot of the restoration of the building is based on a series of photos taken in 1919 for publication in the Country Life magazine, which is a rare stroke of fortune for the ill-fated building. It is therefore within a fairly grand building of the city's livery companies style, and while public tours used to be rare, they are now a fairly regular affair. Tours cost £20 per person, take place at 11am and last around 75 minutes."
Trinity House is the historic corporation responsible for lighthouses, originally founded by King Henry VIII in 1514 to manage shipping safety along the Thames. The corporation’s formal historic name is "The Master, Wardens, and Assistants of the Guild, Fraternity, or Brotherhood of the most glorious and undivided Trinity, and of St. Clement in the Parish of Deptford-Strond in the County of Kent." The headquarters beside the Tower of London occupies a grand late-18th-century building constructed in the 1790s. The building was largely restored after a German bomb in December 1940, with much of the restoration guided by 1919 Country Life photographs. Public tours now run regularly, cost £20, start at 11am, last about 75 minutes, and the first 2026 dates are 30 January, 20 February, 9 March, and 20 April. Tickets must be booked by email.
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