Crosby Hall is a historic building in London. The Great Hall was built in 1466 and originally known as Crosby Place on Bishopsgate, in the City of London. It was moved in 1910 to its present site in C
Crosby Hall at Chelsea from the east, showing the medieval Great Hall, faced in Portland stone, to the right; with 1990s additions in brick to the left
Crosby Hall, showing commercial frontage added 1841
The interior of Crosby Hall in 1884, when it was in use as a restaurant
Crosby Moran Hall viewed across the Thames from the south. The white stone gable visible in the background to the right belongs to the original medieval Great Hall, whilst the riverside frontage dates from the 1990s and the higher northern wing behind it from the 1920s.
Sir Thomas More, venerated in the Catholic Church as a martyr and saint, was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, theologian and Renaissance humanist. He also served Henry
Crosby Hall, London
…occupancy of Crosby Hall and several of those taken into custody were confined there prior to removal to Lambeth Palace. Crosby Hall next belonged to Thomas More, Lord Chancellor of England to King Henry VIII, who took a lease on the building in 1519 before his purchase of it in 1523. He also owned the riverfront…
Portrait of Saint Thomas More, executed on Tower Hill (London) in 1535, apparently based on the Holbein portrait
Rowland Lockey after Hans Holbein the Younger, The Family of Sir Thomas More, c. 1594, Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
Study for a portrait of Thomas More's family, c. 1527, by Hans Holbein the Younger