Paper Buildings are a set of chambers located in the Inner Temple in Temple, London. They were initially constructed in 1609.Wheatley and Cunningham. "Paper Buildings" in London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions. Cambridge University Press. Page 27. Paper Buildings appear in A Tale of Two Cities and Barnaby Rudge.Stephen Halliday. "The Middle and Inner Temple" in From 221B Baker Street to the Old Curiosity Shop. The History Press. Page 52.
On 6 March 1838, about twenty sets of chambers were destroyed, including some valuable libraries, important documents and so forth. The fire originated in the chambers of W. H. Maule MP.Cornelius Walford. The Insurance Cyclopeadia. C and E Layton. 1876. Volume 4. pp 77 & 78. Internet Archive.
Paper Buildings are on the site of Heyward's Buildings, constructed in 1610. p.69 The "paper" part of the name comes from the fact that they were built from timber, lath and plaster, a construction method known as "paperwork". A fire in 1838 destroyed three of the buildings, which were immediately replaced with a design by Robert Smirke, with Sydney Smirke later adding two more buildings. A famous resident of (at the time) Heyward's Buildings was John Selden, who was one of the original tenants and shared a set of chambers with Heyward himself. p.70
3 Paper Buildings John Galsworthy had chambers here from November 1894, where he wrote a short story called "Dick Denver's Idea", which was his first work of fiction.James Jack Gindin. John Galsworthy's Life and Art. University of Michigan Press. Page 56. Internet Archive(1968) 117 New Law Journal 893 Google BooksDudley Barker. The Man of Principle: A View of John Galsworthy. Stein & Day. 1963. p 62 Internet Archive.Sanford V Sternlicht. John Galsworthy. Twayne Publishers. 1987. p 29. Google Books.Alec Fréchet. John Galsworthy: L'Homme, Le Romancier, Le Critique Social. Atelier, reproduced through University of Lille. 1981. p 550. Google Books.Dictionary of Literary Biography. Thomson Gale. 2007. (Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature, Part 2) Page 71. Google Books MI5 was located here from 21 February 1911.West, Nigel. "MI5" in Historical Dictionary of World War I Intelligence. Scarecrow Press. Page 208.
14 Paper Buildings The Common Bail OfficeBritton John. The Original Picture of London. 24th Edition. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green. Paternoster Row, London. 1826. Page 463. and The King's Bench OfficeRobert Crerar. The Merchant, Tradesman's and Solicitor's Book of Reference. Printed for the author and Basil Steuart. London. 1831. Page 94 were located here.
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