The 1790s building beside the Tower of London, home to the people who look after the lighthouses, has two tour dates left in 2026.
Trinity House, the building beside the Tower of London where the people who look after the lighthouses are based, has two tour dates left this year. A place costs £20, tours start at 11am and the visit lasts around 75 minutes.
There is no online basket. Places are booked by email, and the address sits on the tours page of the Trinity House website. Public tours of the headquarters used to be a rarity. These days they run fairly regularly.
Henry VIII founded the organisation in 1514 to manage the safety of shipping on the Thames. The title it carried then ran a good deal longer than the one in use now, taking in the master, wardens and assistants of a guild or brotherhood of the Trinity and of St Clement, and placing it in the parish of Deptford Strond, at that time in Kent.
The move from Deptford to the City came long ago. The present headquarters dates from the 1790s and was put up in the livery company style of the streets around it, which makes it roughly 230 years old.
A German bomb hit the building in December 1940, and much of what visitors see now is the work of the restoration that followed. Those repairs were guided by photographs of the interiors taken in 1919 for Country Life, an unlikely piece of luck for a building that had lost so much.
Tickets are £20 a head and both of the remaining tours begin at 11am. Email is the only route, with the details published on the tours page of the Trinity House website. These are the last two dates in the calendar for 2026.
£20 per person.
Tours begin at 11am and last around 75 minutes.
By email. The details are on the tours page of the Trinity House website, and two dates remain in 2026.
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