Crosby Hall, London

Crosby Hall, London
Crosby Hall
Location: Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
Coordinates: 51°28′56.94″N 0°10′21.52″W / 51.4824833°N 0.1726444°W / 51.4824833; -0.1726444Coordinates: 51°28′56.94″N 0°10′21.52″W / 51.4824833°N 0.1726444°W / 51.4824833; -0.1726444
Built: 1466 (Great Hall and Parlour)
1910 (Remainder)
Listed Building – Grade II*
Official name: Crosby Hall
Designated: 24 June 1954[1]
Reference #: 203744
Crosby Hall, London is located in Greater London
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Location of Crosby Hall in Greater London

Crosby Hall is a historic building in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.[1]

Part of the buildings architectural features are from the Great Hall, which is the only surviving part of the mansion of Crosby Hall, Bishopsgate which was built in 1466 by the wool merchant John Crosby.[2] Crosby rented it to Richard Duke of Gloucester who used it as his London home.[3] It was used as the setting for a scene in William Shakespeare's Richard III.[4] In the reign of Henry VIII it belonged to Antonio Bonvisi.[5]

Following a fire in 1672 only the Great Hall and Parlour wing of the mansion survived, it then became a Presbyterian Meeting House and then a warehouse with an inserted floor.[1]

In 1910 it was threatened with demolition and then moved brick by brick to its present site and the rest of the building by Walter Godfrey constructed around it. The move was paid for by the Bank of India who had purchased the Bishopsgate site to build offices.[6]

Godfrey also added the north wing in 1925-6 as a women's university hall of residence.

Crosby Hall was bought in 1989 by Christopher Moran, a businessman who is the Chairman of Co-operation Ireland.

Notable residents at the original site

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Crosby Hall". Images of England. English Heritage. http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=203744. 
  2. ^ "Crosby Hall". Bishopsgate Institute. http://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=1059. Retrieved 6 June 2010. 
  3. ^ "Crosby Hall". Richardian Sites. http://www.richardiii.net/crosby%20hall.htm. Retrieved 6 June 2010. 
  4. ^ "Local architecture". Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/leisureandlibraries/placesofinterest/localarchitecture.aspx. Retrieved 6 June 2010. 
  5. ^  "Bonvisi, Antonio". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. 
  6. ^ "'Crosby Hall (re-erected)', Survey of London: volume 4: Chelsea, pt II". British History Online. 1913. pp. 15–17. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=74621. 

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