Paper Buildings

{{Short description|Buildings in Temple, London}}

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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. [https://books.google.com/books?id=9KPxH48qnZwC&pg=PA27 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. [https://books.google.com/books?id=65o7AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT52 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. [https://archive.org/details/insurancecyclop06walfgoog Internet Archive].

Paper Buildings are on the site of Heyward's Buildings, constructed in 1610.{{cite book|last=Bellot|first=Hugh|title=The Inner and Middle Temple, legal, literary, and historic associations|url=https://archive.org/details/innerandmiddlet01bellgoog|publisher=Methuen & Co.|location=London|year=1902|oclc=585828}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.innertemple.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5&Itemid=13&limitstart=1|title=The Buildings|publisher=Inner Temple|access-date=4 November 2009}} 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.{{cite book|last=Bellot|first=Hugh|title=The Inner and Middle Temple, legal, literary, and historic associations|url=https://archive.org/details/innerandmiddlet01bellgoog|publisher=Methuen & Co.|location=London|year=1902|oclc=585828}} p.70