Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year

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

The image Stained glass showing a crowned

lion from the east window in the Weston Room

at the Maughan Library in Chancery

Lane, London WC2. This room stands

on the site of the former estate of the

Masters of the Rolls, and fragments

of mediaeval glass from their chapel

were incorporated into the windows of this part

of the building when it was reconstructed in 1898

as part of the Public Record Office Building.

King’s College London took over the building,

known as ‘the Strong-box of the Empire’, in the

1990s. The College cleaned and restored the

glass as part of its award-winning conversion

of the building into a library for the

Schools of its Strand Campus, which

was officially opened by Her Majesty

the Queen in 2002. The room also

houses three monuments to Masters

of the Rolls, of which the most important is in

terracotta by Pietro Torrigiano and dates from

the early sixteenth century, as well as a fine

late-Victorian mosaic floor, discovered during

the restoration work.