York Guild of Building

The builders of medieval York included masons, glaziers, plumbers, plasterers and tilers, and, largest of all, the group who worked in wood, variously described as carpenters, sawyers, joiners and carvers. Of these, only four crafts became organised into guilds; the Carpenters, the Masons, the Tile-thatchers and the Plasterers. These guilds came to an end in the early nineteenth century.

The York Guild of Building was founded in 1954 to encourage communication between the many different sections of the building industry. It has as its objectives the advancement of design, management, science and craft in building and the encouragement of a better understanding of the problems and achievements of those engaged in the building industry. To further these objectives an annual programme of lectures, visits and social functions is produced.

Meetings are held in Bedern Hall and visits are arranged to places of general interest. Each year the guild awards silver and bronze medals made in the shape of its emblem to students attending the York College of Arts and Technology Buildings Department who have attained a high standard of work in their subject.

For more information please visit The York Guild of Building website.

Or write to: E. Howland Esq, Clerk, 41 Penyghent Avenue, York.