Thomas More Chambers

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TQ3081SE 798-1/106/1780

CAMDEN CAREY STREET (North side) Nos.51 and 52 Thomas More Chambers

GV II

Legal chambers. 1888. By George Sherrin, initials GMA in lintel. Cut red brick and stone with ground-floor shopfronts. Roof not seen. Two broad and two narrow windows to Carey Street with entrance under the left of the latter. Two storeys with tall single stack in line with front of building. Cut red brick swags and fruit decoration, oriels in broader bays to left with decorative stonework. Cornice with egg-and-dart moulding, bold projecting parapet with elaborate stone decoration. Single bay return to Serle Street similarly treated, with oriel over shopfront. Corner with plaque to Sir Thomas More 'some time Lord Chancellor of England 1535' and panelled door in Gibbs surround.

INTERIOR: entrance leads through to New Square, Lincoln's Inn (qv) with marble stone floors and staircase, the latter with bulbous vase-shaped timber balusters. Secondary stair with wrought-iron balustrade against Serle Street elevation.

Listing NGR: TQ3097381254