Rigby opens the doors to its new London home

John Rigby & Co. has completed its move to 42 Clapham Manor Street, establishing a new London headquarters designed to bring visitors closer to the craft and history behind its guns.



The Grade II-listed former ballet school has been transformed over three and a half years into a new home for the gunmaker, which celebrated its 250th anniversary in 2025. Its ground floor is dedicated to Rigby’s gunmakers, with specialist workshops arranged so that visitors can follow the making of a gun through woodworking, metalworking and finishing. The building also houses the Rigby Academy, an engraving studio, a museum and a showroom.



In the showroom, vaulted ceilings and exposed oak beams frame a display of Rigby’s guns and historic collection. At its centre is Jim Corbett’s rifle, displayed beneath the glass-topped table on which new guns will be presented to clients. It is a tangible connection between the rifles that shaped Rigby’s reputation and those being made in London today.

The move gives the company room to grow after more than a decade at Pensbury Place, where Rigby established its workshop following its return to London. The new premises have been planned around the needs of its gunmakers, with space for their work to be seen and understood by visitors.



Rigby Managing Director Marc Newton said: “Pensbury Place gave us the home we needed to rebuild Rigby, and it will always mean a great deal to us. At Clapham Manor Street, we’ve been able to create the home we imagined for the next chapter of the company.

“I wanted the gunmakers to be at the heart of it. Visitors will be able to see the skill and care that goes into our guns, then step into a showroom filled with the stories that brought us here. Having Jim Corbett’s rifle at the centre of that room, with every new gun presented above it, says a great deal about what our history and craftsmanship mean to us.”

Very nice. Congratulations!

Look forward to visiting.

Looks fantastic, if I ever make it over to the old country I will definitely stop by.

I was able to see it in July before all the final touches. You could tell even then how fitting it was for Rigby. All the craftsmen and women I met at the old shop down the street were so excited for their new working spaces, designed with them to do their jobs perfectly. The Big 5 wall is so much more impressive in person than in pictures! Congratulations to all involved.

The next time my wife and I are in London, we'll stop by. The new shop looks incredible. Congratulations!

Looks incredible, hopefully I can one day visit.

I might enjoy a visit ... if I ever make it to London ... which is unlikely. Big cities of any sort are no longer in my future except to transit through ... as quickly as possible. However, I'll be sure to bequest my hunting rifles to Rigby for their showroom to display. They're not Rigby made but should be legendary by the time I sign off. Move over Jim Corbett.

Dang. Just left London. But I’ll be back in 2027. Hopefully I can make it by

Congrats on their new HQ; it looks grand. I'd love to tour the place, but am not likely to ever go to London again after my swell times when I lived there during the 1980s/Thatcher. Even by 2007 the place was unrecognizable, and I can't imagine it 20 years later, sorry.

I wish John Rigby & Co. every success. They probably craft the last civilian rifles in the entire city!

Awesome….hopefully this will help efficiency and production (and hopefully increase thereof)

Very nice. A good mate visted this week and had a ball. Looking forward to getting over again.

Excellent guys! It looks magnificent.

I will definitely be popping in next time I come to London.

I’m curious, is the skin under the rifle one of Corbetts maneaters he hunted with the 275? If so which one?

I take it that the workshop and showroom will be in the same building??