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GRAY'S INN PLACE
Field Court continues as Gray's Inn Place, which contains buildings remarkably different from each other. No.1 is an exquisite, small three storey house, early nineteenth century. There are Corinthian pillars to the door, which has a fan-light with a pattern in wrought-iron tracery. On the opposite side two charming little verandas, painted light blue, also have delicately patterned wrought-iron tracery, bringing a feeling of Viennese Baroque to London. No.3 is a graceless mid-nineteenth-century lump, while the biggest building of all, twenty years old, is uncompromisingly functional with plain red brick-work and large metal-framed windows, although it is quite out of proportion. Through it a passageway leads to Warwick Place and High Holborn and over the archway on the other side there may be seen, surrounding excellent coloured representations of the arms of the four Inns, the name of the building: Inns of Court School of Law.
This School is managed by the Council of Legal Education, set up by the Inns in 1852. Its policy is now controlled by the Senate of the Inns of Court and the Bar. Hardby, a plaque commemorates the warrior Sun Yat-Sen - his nom de guerre was Sun Wen (1866&1925), who organised the secret revolutionary societies at Canton which overthrew the Manchu dynasty in 1911.
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