Drapers’ Hall
Agas MapList documents mentioning Drapers’ Hall- A Survey of London
- Bartholomew Lane
- Biography of John Stow (1525–1605)
- Broad Street
- Broad Street Ward
- Gazetteer (D)
- Gazetteer (T)
- Himatia-Poleos: The Triumphs of Old Drapery, or the Rich Clothing of England
- Historical Personography
- Metropolis Coronata
- Survey of London: Broad Street Ward
- Survey of London: Lime Street Ward
- Survey of London: Temporal Government of London
- The Triumphs of Love and Antiquity
- Throgmorton Street
- Variant spellings
Draper’s Hall was a livery company hall on the
north side of Throgmorton Street in Broad Street Ward. On the Agas map, Drapers’ Hall appears as a large house with three
round towers, thus resembling the architecture of Hampton Court Palace and some
of the college gates at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Stow records that the hall was built by Sir Thomas Cromwell for his own use as
a house. The Drapers bought the house from Henry VIII in 1543, the house having
passed into the monarch’s possession after Cromwell’s execution in 1540. The hall is described by Stow as
very large and spacious(Stow). In subsequent centuries, the hall was rebuilt three times: first, in 1666, the Great Fire destroyed the Tudor hall; second, in 1772, it partially burned again; and third, from 1866 to 1870, the hall of the Hanoverian era was rebuilt (Harben). Drapers’ Hall stands today on the same site.
See also: the website of the Drapers’ Company: History and Heritage.
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Citation
Harben, Henry. A Dictionary of London. London: Henry Jenkins, 1918. British History Online. Reprint. Open.This item is cited in the following documents:
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Citation
Stow, John. A Survey of London. Reprinted from the Text of 1603. Ed. Charles Lethbridge Kingsford. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1908. Reprint. British History Online. Subscription. [Kingsford edition, courtesy of The Centre for Metropolitan History. Articles written 2011 or later cite from this searchable transcription. In the in-text parenthetical reference (Stow; BHO), click on BHO to go directly to the page containing the quotation or source.]This item is cited in the following documents:
![The coat of arms of the Drapers’ Company, from Stow (1633). [Full size image]](graphics/Drapers_sm.jpg)
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