2-798-889 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Library - presentation of the address, Lincoln's Inn New Buildings, 1845. Members of the legal profession in the library at Lincoln's Inn, one of the Inns of Court at Holborn in London. The new complex was designed by Philip Hardwick. The Library '...is 80 feet in length by 40 feet in width, and 48 feet high; and terminates at each end, (East and West) in a lofty, spacious, and deeply-recessed oriel, whose window forms three sides of an octagon; while the other two sides, or embrasure in the thickness of the walls, are richly adorned with shafts, panels, mouldings, &c. The same, or even an increased degree of decoration is bestowed upon the ceilings, which are framed in by an arch, forming the head of the general recess'. From "Illustrated London News", 1845, Vol VII.