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Royal Exchange

Three centuries of City trading, now a luxury arcade under a colonnade, and free to walk into.

Jewellery & antiquesTrading before 1900

From Bank junction, the Bank of England on the left and 22 Bishopsgate behind.

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Gresham founded the exchange in 1571 as a place for merchants to meet; this is the third building, opened by Victoria in 1844 after the first two burned. Trading left long ago and the courtyard is now a covered arcade of jewellers, watchmakers and a bar.

What is worth coming for is the building - the portico, the courtyard and the painted panels round the upper gallery telling London's commercial history.

Where
Royal Exchange, Cornhill, EC3V 3LR
Nearest station
Bank · 2 min walk

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