Crosby Hall, London
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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.
East India Company
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The East India Company was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed for Indian Ocean trade, initially with the East Indies, and
Crosby Hall, London
…considered the house unfit to live in and divided the Hall, making over part to a Presbyterian congregation for use as a meeting room and part to the East India Company. From 1621 to 1638 Crosby Hall was the headquarters of the East India Company. During this time, the building underwent significant wear and repairs…
James Lancaster commanded the first East India Company voyage in 1601.
Red Dragon fought the Portuguese at the Battle of Swally in 1612, and made several voyages to the East Indies.
The emperor Jahangir investing a courtier with a robe of honour, watched by Sir Thomas Roe, English ambassador to the court of Jahangir at Agra from 1615 to 1618, and others
A document with the original vermilion seal of Tokugawa Ieyasu, granting trade privileges in Japan to the East India Company in 1613