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The name of this range recalls the Crown Office
of the King's Bench, which was located in the Inner Temple by 1542.
Prior to the Blitz there were two buildings, the earlier (comprising
Nos. 1-3) a classical building of 1737, and the other (adjoining
it on the west) designed in an Italianate style by Sydney Smirke
in 1864. It was in the former that Charles Lamb was born. Both were
destroyed by enemy action in 1941. The present building was designed
by Sir Edward Maufe, R.A. (1955).
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