Latitude: 51.5149 / 51°30'53"N
Longitude: -0.1137 / 0°6'49"W
OS Eastings: 530986
OS Northings: 181244
OS Grid: TQ309812
Mapcode National: GBR LC.M3
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.Z58Z
Plus Code: 9C3XGV7P+XG
Entry Name: Thomas More Chambers
Listing Date: 11 January 1999
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1244096
English Heritage Legacy ID: 476853
ID on this website: 101244096
Location: Holborn, Camden, London, WC2A
County: London
District: Camden
Electoral Ward/Division: Holborn and Covent Garden
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Camden
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Mary le Strand with St Clement Danes
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Building
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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
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