Legal London: Courts and Attorneys' Offices

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Court Houses

• The Royal Courts of Justice (“the Law Courts”)
• The Central Criminal Courts (The Old Bailey)

Miscellaneous

• The Law Society
• The Temple Church
• The Temple Church — a 1902 watercolor

Gray's Inn

• Gray's Inn Square, the Chapel, and Library

Lincoln's Inn

• The Great (or New) Hall, Lincoln's Inn
• The South End of the Great Hall, Lincoln's Inn
• Lincoln's Inn Library (1)
• Lincoln's Inn Library (II)
• Eight scenes from Lincoln's Inn from the 1887 Illustrated London News

The Inner Temple

• Pegasus Weather-Vane, Inner Temple
• 3-4 Hare Court
• King's Bench Walk
• King's Bench Walk (drawing by Bailey, 1902)
• Paper Buildings
• Looking toward the Thames, Inner Temple Gardens
• Inner Temple Gardens: Looking Eastward, the Thames on the right
• The east side of Inner Temple Gardens

The Middle Temple

• Entrance to Middle Temple Hall
• 1-4 Temple Gardens
• Plowden Buildings

The Inns of Chancery

• Staple Inn (one of the Inns of Chancery until the 1880s)
• Staple Inn exterior, 1902 Drawing
• Staple Inn courtyard, 1902 Drawing

Prisons and their procedures throughout the UK

• Newgate Gaol
• Millbank Prison
• A prisoner "sitting for his portrait" in the days before photography
• Pentonville Prison and the inhumanity of the Silent System

Related Material

• Sir George Lewis, celebrated defense attorney and art patron

References

Dixon, Roger, and Stefan Muthesius. Victorian Architecture. 2rd ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 1985.

Jones, Edward, and Christopher Woodward. A Guide to the Architecture of London. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1992.

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