Paper Buildings

[1] Paper Buildings appear in A Tale of Two Cities and Barnaby Rudge.

[2] On 6 March 1838, about twenty sets of chambers were destroyed, including some valuable libraries, important documents and so forth.

[4] 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".

[6] John Galsworthy had chambers here from November 1894, where he wrote a short story called "Dick Denver's Idea", which was his first work of fiction.

[13] 3PB (3 Paper Buildings) is a barristers Chambers which has been in existence since Christmas Day 1892.

Oil painting of Paper Buildings, circa 1725
Cars parked at Paper Buildings