2-703-767 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Carving in Stone Beneath the Middlesex Coat of Arms at the Guildhall, Westminster', c1935. Stone frieze by Henry Charles Fehr depicting the granting of a charter to Westminster Abbey by King Henry III (1207-1272), flanked by the figures of Prudence and Justice. Middlesex Guildhall court building in Parliament Square in London was built on the site of the belfry of Westminster Abbey. The current building was designed by JS Gibson and opened in 1913. It has been used as the County Hall of Middlesex, as the seat of the Greater London Quarter Sessions, as a county court, and latterly as the home of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. From "Wonderful London, Volume 3", edited by Arthur St John Adcock. [The Fleetway House, London, c1935]