Record Office

Record Office
   On the east side of Chancery Lane (P.O. Directory).
   Erected 1856-70 as a depository for the Public Records of the kingdom formerly deposited in the Tower and elsewhere.
   The Record Office in the Tower was in Wakefield's Tower.
   The present building occupies the site of the Rolls' Office (q.v.).

A Dictionary of London. . 1918.

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