IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/136
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: CROSBY HALL
Date(s): 1833-1838
Level of description: Collection
Extent: One production unit.
Name of creator(s): Subscribers to the Preservation of Crosby Hall
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Crosby Hall was part of a mansion in Bishopsgate built for Sir John Crosby in 1466. It was owned by Sir Thomas More in 1532. In 1621 to 1638 it was the headquarters of the East India Company, then it became a Presbyterian Meeting House, commercial premises, the Crosby Hall Literary and Scientific Institution, and a restaurant. In 1908 it was purchased by the Charter Bank of India and was demolished to make way for their head office. The building materials were preserved and the hall was rebuilt as part of the International Hostel of the British Federation of University Women in Chelsea.
These records date to the Hall's time as a commercial premises (1770-1853).
Information from The London Encyclopaedia, eds. Weinreb and Hibbert (LMA Library Reference 67.2 WEI).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Crosby Hall visitors book, c 1833-1837, with minutes and rough accounts of the trustees and committee of the subscribers to the preservation of Crosby Hall, 1833-1835.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
One volume.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to these records rests with the City of London.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
From the papers of J S Bumpus, deposited at Guildhall. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
Title deeds of Crosby Hall are held at Bishopsgate Institute. Many of them are transcribed or illustrated in C Goss, Crosby Hall, (London) 1908.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: June to August 2010.