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GRAY'S
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RAYMOND BUILDINGS
From Gray's Inn Place a path leads north, past the only tennis court within the Inns of Court and a little wicket gate giving an exit to Bedford Row, to the five-house terrace of Raymond Buildings, which run up to Theobald's Road. Built in 1825, they form a precise juxtaposition to Verulam Buildings at the other side of the Walks, and are named after Sir Robert Raymond, who was Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 1725. Their construction, alas, obliterated the 'mount' that was one of the features of Bacon's landscaping, on which had originally stood a Banqueting House thirty feet in height.
Winston Churchill's confidante and Private Secre-tary, Eddy Marsh, lived for many years at No.4, and whose friends may never forget either his bushy eyebrows or the overhanging array of paintings which covered his garret chambers.

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