Talk:Stone Buildings

This page has been created as an attempt to provide information on a Barrister chamber. It mirrors the style of one of the most famous barrister's chambers, namely "Matrix Chambers", which can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_Chambers

It is not intended as promotional material. Please therefore do not delete.

Infoboxes

The infoboxes are (mostly) left over from the merger of the multiple pages that once contained some of the information in this article. I do not think it is practical to have infoboxes on every person or body or persons included in the article, which would be the logical conclusion of allowing the existing infoboxes to remain. Accordingly, I am going to replace the infoboxes with normal text. The addresses in the infoboxes are redundant to the introduction which explains exactly where Stone Buildings is. Some of the other information in the infoboxes is unnecessarily repeated. James500 (talk) 16:16, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

The sundial on the west front of number 4

Can anyone confirm, with a source, whether or not the motto was originally intended as a reference to Matthew 25:13? I don't recall seeing a source that explains what the motto means. James500 (talk) 04:52, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Checklist

This article needs a description of the war damage as a whole, some mention of the basement being commandeered by the government for war use, more detail on the common rooms in number 7 (see "The Black Books"), date and other details of Grade I listing and a more precise description of the appearance/structure/etc of numbers 1 to 11 (see eg the "Historic England" source and Cherry and Pevsner). This article needs a map or diagram showing the layout of the buildings (ie a plan of the buildings), and where they are in relation to landmarks around them. It needs photos, pictures or diagrams showing what it looks like as a whole, probably showing elevations of it. The diagram of the layout of number 7 in the 1860 commissioners' report on sites for the superior courts should be included. Sources missing from the article include "A Students Guide to Lincoln's Inn" (which has a layout plan, though it pre-dates number 7) and one google labels as "The Beauties of England and Wales" by Brayley and Britton, though the title page is different, "London and Middlesex" by Nightingale (comes up on search for "11 Stone Buildings"). The date of the move of the library to 2 Stone Buildings may be an error that should read 1787. The date of 1755 could only be true if the 1774 date of construction is wrong (which seems unlikely) or there was an earlier building on the same site. Stone building needs to be redirected to Building material#Rock or stone or turned into a disambiguation page. The dissolution of the 11 Stone Buildings set can be sourced to an article in "The Lawyer" and possibly similar sources. "ADR Group" should be defined by a link rather than prose. I'm not sure if the Chambers and Partners sources support all the claims about the barrister's sets at 5, 9 and 11: The profiles contain words to the effect they were submitted by the set, and the presumably independent rankings are numerical (ie band 1, 2, 3, 4 etc) rather than "highly", "leading" etc. Frederic William Maitland worked at No 3. John Mac Arthur (Chairman of the Committee of Colonies and Trade) was at Stone Buildings. Robert Grant MP was at No 1 (Thirteenth Report of Directors of the African Institution, 1819, p 113). Library book depository on ground floor of 1 Stone Buildings; Masters of the Exchequer subsequently acquired it (Black Books, vol 5, p xxxvii). Ireland's Picturesque Views has a picture on p 125.James500 (talk) 11:44, 13 February 2016 (UTC)