Details
Lincoln’s Inn covers an area of eleven acres, which was purchased in 1580 and has been developed over the centuries. Today it is made up of its collegiate buildings, comprising the Great Hall complex, the Library, the Old hall with its original late medieval roof timbers and the Chapel, together with barristers’ chambers and residential and commercial premises. During the nineteenth century the Benchers of the Inn commissioned a larger hall and library complex from Philip Hardwick and these splendid new buildings, described by Hardwick as in the ‘collegiate style’, were opened by Queen Victoria on the 30th October 1845 to great acclaim. The Library, which contains a large collection of rare books, was almost doubled in size in 1872 by George Gilbert Scott.
Venue
Lincoln’s Inn, London WC2A 3TL
Event Organisers
Sarah Bowles and Philippa Barton
Cost
Cost of the visit is £40 to include the online lecture on Tuesday 20th February - plus Eventbrite booking fee
Programme
10.30am
Coffee
11.00am
Visit to Lincoln’s Inn with Dunstan Speight, Librarian, Lincoln’s Inn