Christmas card 2006 Maughan library window

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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


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