The Drapers' Hall is still located on the site of the Tudor Hall on Throgmorton Street. The current Hall is mostly Victorian.
The Hall at St Swithin's Lane comprised a refectory, a great chamber, parlours ('one of them of superior dimensions'), a kitchen, storehouse, and scalding yard (Herbert, History 462-3).
Performances by several troupes are recorded in the early 16th c.
The Drapers' Hall remains in use by the Company.
1385 Drapers purchased property on St Swithin's Lane from John Beauchamp. Beauchamp was subsequently convicted of treason and his lands fortified to the Crown. The Drapers spent many years attempting to regain undisputed rights to the property.
1409 Richard II confirmed the Drapers' right to the land.
1425 First Hall constructed.
1430 The Hall officially occupied by the Drapers who held a feast this year in celebration.
1543 Drapers bought The Erber, formerly Thomas Cromwell's turreted stone residence, in Throgmorton Street. The company agreed to rent out their former Hall in St Swithin's Lane.
1666 Hall destroyed by the Great Fire.
1667-71 Hall rebuilt.
1672-4 An interior fire in the store cellar initiated further reconstruction.
1774 Part of the building, as well as several adjacent houses, destroyed by fire. Subsequently rebuilt, with alterations.
1860s The exterior frontage altered and the interior redecorated.
1898-9 Victorian facade along the street rebuilt and interiors altered.
REED Civic London to 1558 1. 328, 339, 349, 371, 379; 2.459, 465, 475, 485, 492, 501, 522, 532, 588, 605, 634
