Crosby Moran Hall

Crosby Moran Hall Crosby Moran Hall is London's most important surviving domestic medieval building. Crosby Hall has now been renamed Crosby Moran Hall.

Built in 1466, the former palace of Richard III and Sir Thomas More originally stood in Bishopsgate and is now restored upon its current site in Chelsea. Crosby Hall originally stood in Bishopsgate in the City of London and was transferred to this site under threat of demolition in 1910. It formed part of Crosby Place built in the 15th Century for Sir John Crosby, a wealthy wool merchant, and afte

r him was occupied by King Richard III. It later passed to Sir Thomas More on whose estate in Chelsea it has come to rest. In 1988, Crosby Hall was purchased out of public ownership by Dr. Christopher Moran, who embarked on a project to put Crosby Hall back into its historical context in terms of architecture. Furthermore then to show art and architecture of the Tudor, Elizabethan and early Stuart periods in their context.

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