Tanfield Court Buildings
(destroyed 1941). From the south west corner of the court.
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This was built in 1957 to the designs of Sir Edward
Maufe, replacing buildings destroyed in the Blitz. The site was
formerly occupied by the Exchequer Office (1665, rebuilt in 1830)
and part of Tanfield Court buildings (1881). Tanfield Court (on
the west side of the range, now part of Church Court) was named
after Sir Lawrence Tanfield (d. 1625), and was the scene of a notorious
double murder in 1733. The name of the present building commemorates
Sir Francis Kyffin Taylor, Q.C., later Lord Maenan (d. 1951), a
bencher for 46 years. The inscription has the initials of Archibald
William Cockburn, Treasurer 1959.
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