Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year
The image Stained glass showing a crowned
1990s. The College cleaned and restored the
lion from the east window in the Weston Room
glass as part of its award-winning conversion
at the Maughan Library in Chancery
of the building into a library for the
Lane, London WC2. This room stands
Schools of its Strand Campus, which
on the site of the former estate of the
was officially opened by Her Majesty
Masters of the Rolls, and fragments
the Queen in 2002. The room also
of mediaeval glass from their chapel
houses three monuments to Masters
were incorporated into the windows of this part
of the Rolls, of which the most important is in
of the building when it was reconstructed in 1898
terracotta by Pietro Torrigiano and dates from
as part of the Public Record Office Building.
the early sixteenth century, as well as a fine
King’s College London took over the building,
late-Victorian mosaic floor, discovered during
known as ‘the Strong-box of the Empire’, in the
the restoration work.
Exhibition room stained glass by Roni Pacht. Runner-up in the 2005 Photographic Competition run by Archives & Corporate Record Services and open to all members of the College. © Roni Pacht