The Worshipful Company of Plaisterers is one of the Livery Companies in the City of London. It was incorporated under a Royal Charter in 1501. The spelling used in the charter was "plaisterer," and, though a future charters uses the spelling "plasterer", the original spelling is retained.
The Company originated as a trade association of London's plasterers. Today, it maintains a connection to the trade by establishing plastering standards and by officially accrediting plasterers. The Company is also a charitable and educational institution.
The Company ranks forty-sixth in the order of precedence of the Livery Companies. Its motto is Let Brotherly Love Continue.
External link
The Plaisterer's Company (http://www.plaistererslivery.co.uk/)
The 107 Livery Companies are trade associations based in the City of London, each known as the WorshipfulCompany of the relevant trade or profession.
The Livery Companies originally developed as guilds and were responsible for the regulation of their trades, controlling, for instance, wages and labour conditions.
Among the earliest companies known to have possessed halls were the Merchant Taylors and Goldsmiths in the 14th century, but neither theirs nor other companies' original halls remain; the few survivors of the Great Fire were destroyed, along with many reconstructed ones, during the Blitz.
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