Maughan Library

{{short description|Main academic and research library of King's College London}} {{EngvarB|date=October 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2017}} {{Infobox library | name = Maughan Library, King's College London | image = Maughan-library-1.jpg | image_size = 270px | logo = King's College London logo.svg | logo_size = 150px | caption = The Maughan Library with the Clock Tower | country = United Kingdom | type = [[Academic library]] | scope = | established = '''1232''' ''[[Domus Conversorum]]'' '''1377''' Chapel/House of Master of the Rolls '''1851''' [[Public Record Office]] '''2001''' Maughan Library | ref_legal_mandate = | location = [[Chancery Lane]] London, [[WC postcode area|WC2]] | coordinates = {{coord|51.5153|-0.1106|type:landmark_region:GB-LND|display=inline,title}} | branch_of = [[King's College London]] Library Services | num_branches = 8<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/contact/index.aspx|title=Contact us|publisher=King's College London|access-date=27 February 2013 }}</ref> | items_collected = Books, [[academic journal|journal]]s, newspapers, magazines, [[Sound recording|sound and music recordings]], [[map]]s, [[Printmaking|prints]], drawings and [[manuscript]]s | collection_size = 750k items (approx.)<ref name="tour">{{citation|title=Strand Campus Tour|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/visit/StrandCampusTour.pdf |page=6|publisher=King's College London|location=London|access-date=25 February 2013 }}</ref> | criteria = | legal_deposit = | req_to_access = Students and staff of [[King's College London]] and other [[University of London]] colleges, some [[SCONUL]] Access Card holders and members of the public with legitimate research needs | annual_circulation = | pop_served = | members = | budget = £5,087,981 (Expenditure on print and electronic resources across all branches 2011–12)<ref name="report11">{{citation|title=Library Services Annual Report 2011-12|author=King's College London Library Services|publisher=King's College London|year=2011|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/about/report.pdf|page=39|access-date=18 March 2013|archive-date=19 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130619022226/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/about/report.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> | director = Lis Hannon | num_employees = | website = {{URL|https://www.kcl.ac.uk/library|kcl.ac.uk/library}} }} The '''Maughan Library''' ({{IPAc-en|m|ɔː|n}}) is the main university [[research library]] of [[King's College London]], forming part of the [[Strand Campus]]. A 19th-century [[Gothic Revival architecture|neo-Gothic]] building located on [[Chancery Lane]] in the [[City of London]], it was formerly the home to the headquarters of the [[Public Record Office]], known as the "strong-box of the [[British Empire|Empire]]",<ref name="about1">{{cite web|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/help/documents/MaughanLG.pdf|title=About the building|publisher=King's College London|location=London|date=October 2012|access-date=19 January 2013|archive-date=16 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170516200346/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/help/documents/MaughanLG.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> and was acquired by the university in 2001. Following a £35M renovation designed by Gaunt Francis Architects, the Maughan is the largest new university library in the United Kingdom since [[World War II]].<ref name="times">O'Leary (2010), p. 404</ref>

==History== [[File:RollsChapel.jpg|thumb|left|Rolls Chapel and Rolls House in 1800. The chapel was rebuilt in 1617 by [[Inigo Jones]], the remains of which form part of the now Weston Room, the oldest section of the Maughan Library]]

===Early history=== The library building seen today was built in 1851, however, its roots date back to the 13th century.

====Rolls Chapel==== [[File:cmglee London Maughan Library Weston Room.jpg|thumb|left|The Weston Room in 2013, which forms part of the Rolls Chapel (roots dating back c1232)]]

The Maughan occupies the site of the ''[[Domus Conversorum]]'' (House of the Converts or ''Le Converse Inn'' in [[Norman French]]), later known as the ''Chapel of the Master of the Rolls'' because the [[Master of the Rolls]] was warden of the Domus Conversorum. The House of the Converts was established by [[Henry III of England|Henry III]] in 1232 to provide a residence and chapel for [[Jews]] who had converted to Christianity, and the chapel attached to it began the following year.<ref name="lyte">Lyte (1907), p. 1</ref><ref>Adler, p. 2</ref><ref name="stow">Stow (1722), p. 121: "Rolls Chapel in Chancery Lane, so called because it's a Repository now of Charters, Patents, Commissions, and other Matters, made up in Rolls of Parchment, from the beginning of [[Richard III of England|King Richard the Third]], in 1484; those before that Time are kept in Wakefield Tower, in the [[Tower of London]]; but at first here was founded by [[Henry III of England|King Henry the Third]], in 1233, an House of converted Jews upon a Jew's House, which had been formerly confiscated to the Crown. Pr.[ayers] and S.[ermons] are every Sunday Morning in Term Time at 10, and only Pr.[ayers] at 3, and on Holydays at 10 and 3; Sac.[rament] every second Sunday of the 4 Terms, on Christmas day, Easter Sunday, and Whitsunday."</ref>

In 1278, in a letter given to the king by John the Convert, the Converts referred to themselves as ''Pauperes Cœlicolæ Christi''.<ref name="british-history.ac.uk">{{cite book |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-london/vol1/pp76-92 |accessdate=19 October 2021| title=Old and New London: Volume 1 |chapter=Fleet Street: Northern tributaries - Chancery Lane | first=Walter | last=Thornbury | year=1878 | pages=76–92 | website=British History Online}}</ref> During the reign of [[Richard II]], certain Converts received, for life, a two-pence wage; and in the reign of [[Henry IV of England|Henry IV]], by special patent, a rabbi's daughter was given a penny for life by the keepers of the House.<ref name="british-history.ac.uk"/>

Following the expulsion of Jews from England by [[Edward I]] through the [[Edict of Expulsion]] in 1290, the [[Master of the Rolls]] became warden and the chapel became known as the Chapel of the Master of the Rolls, or Rolls Chapel.<ref>Adler, p. 4.</ref> In 1377, [[Edward III]] broke up the Jewish almshouse, consequently annexing the House as well as the chapel to the newly instituted office of ''Custos Rotulorum'', or Keeper of the Rolls.<ref name="british-history.ac.uk"/> The office is used to store the rolls and records of the [[Court of Chancery]].<ref name="lyte"/>

The chapel was rebuilt in 1617 by [[Inigo Jones]] at a cost of £2,000, and the poet and priest [[John Donne]] preached during the consecration.<ref name="british-history.ac.uk"/><ref name="sibbald">Sibbald (1800), p. 356.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/services/environment-and-planning/environmental-enhancement/strategies/Documents/chancery-lane-enhancement-strategy-history.pdf|title=Chancery Lane Area Enhancement Scheme|page=12|author=Chancery Lane Association|publisher=City of London|access-date=14 March 2013|archive-date=2 September 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120902191351/http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/services/environment-and-planning/environmental-enhancement/strategies/Documents/chancery-lane-enhancement-strategy-history.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> It was rebuilt again in 1734, and altered in 1784.<ref name="sibbald"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/services/environment-and-planning/environmental-enhancement/strategies/Documents/chancery-lane-enhancement-strategy-history.pdf|title=Chancery Lane Area Enhancement Scheme|page=12|author=Chancery Lane Association|publisher=City of London|access-date=14 March 2013|archive-date=2 September 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120902191351/http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/services/environment-and-planning/environmental-enhancement/strategies/Documents/chancery-lane-enhancement-strategy-history.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> The records were moved in 1856 and the chapel was demolished in 1895. The only remains are an arch mounted on the garden elevation of the Chancery lane wing, some [[English church monuments|tomb monuments]], [[stained glass windows|stained glass]] panels and a [[mosaic]] floor.<ref name="hibbert">Hibbert, Weinreb, Keay, Keay (2008), p. 698.</ref>

There are three principal tomb monuments. The first commemorates [[John Yonge]] (d.1516), Master of the Rolls in the early part of the reign of Henry VIII. The work of [[Pietro Torrigiano]] (who also made the tomb of [[Henry VII of England|Henry VII]] in [[Westminster Abbey]]), it features a recumbent effigy with hands crossed, wearing a red gown and square cap.<ref name="british-history.ac.uk"/> The second, attributed to the [[Cornelius Cure|Cure]] workshop, commemorates Richard Allington (d.1561) and his wife: it includes kneeling figures of the couple facing one another across a prayer-desk, on the front of which are depicted in relief their three daughters, also kneeling.<ref name="pev328">Bradley and Pevsner 1997, p. 328.</ref> The third monument, attributed to [[Maximilian Colt]], is that of [[Edward Bruce, 1st Lord Kinloss]] (d.1611), whose semi-recumbent effigy wears a long-furred robe: below him are four kneeling figures, including a man in armour, perhaps his son, Edward.<ref name="british-history.ac.uk"/><ref name="pev328"/>

====Rolls House==== Rolls House was the official residence of the Master of the Rolls and remained in the possession of the office until 1837, when it was surrendered to the Crown.<ref name="lyte"/>

===Public Record Office=== [[File:Public Record Office staff play cricket outside Chancery Lane offices in London during the Blitz.jpg|thumb|left|Public Record Office staff play [[cricket]] outside Chancery Lane offices during [[The Blitz]]]] [[File:Ivory Towers - geograph.org.uk - 1650865.jpg|thumb|170px|right|Ivory-looking towers surrounding the library building, here viewed from [[Chancery Lane]], radiant during summer sunset]]

In 1838 the ''Public Record Office Act'' was passed to "keep safely the public records".<ref name="PRA">{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/legislation/history-of-pra.htm |title=History of the Public Records Act|publisher=National Archives|access-date=25 February 2013 }}</ref> Construction of the earliest part of the building seen today, the central wing, began in 1851. As a [[archive|repository]], it is claimed to be the first purpose-built [[fireproof]] building in England.<ref name="tour"/><ref name="dewe">Dewe (2009), p. 223</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.londonopenhouse.org/public/london/find/detail.asp?loh_id=1545|title=King's College London, The Maughan Library|publisher=Open City|location=London|access-date=25 February 2013|archive-date=3 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130703185615/http://www.londonopenhouse.org/public/london/find/detail.asp?loh_id=1545|url-status=dead}}</ref> To minimise the risk of fire the storerooms were designed as [[Compartmentalization (fire protection)|compartmentalised]] closed cells and the building had no heating. One of the cells which stored documents remains in its original condition, including its bookcases and fire proof [[slate]] shelves.<ref name="about2">{{cite web|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/help/documents/MaughanG.pdf|title=Weston Room|publisher=King's College London|location=London|date=October 2012|access-date=25 February 2013|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074609/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/help/documents/MaughanG.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> Two search rooms were added in 1863 and a clock tower was built in 1865. In 1869–71 the building was extended along [[Fetter Lane]], and in the 1890s two more wings designed by [[John Taylor (architect)|Sir John Taylor]] were added. At this time the [[medieval]] walls of the chapel were found to be unsound and had to be rebuilt.<ref>Lyte (1907), p. 3</ref> In 1902 the chapel became a museum of the Public Record Office.<ref name="darby">Darby, Trudi & Bell (2002), pp. 56–63</ref> By 1997 all records were transferred to a new site in [[Kew]] or the [[Family Records Centre]] in [[Islington]].

===University library=== [[File:The_Maughan_Library,_King's_College,_London.jpg|thumb|right|The courtyard of the Maughan Library facing west]] [[File:The Maughan Library - 2017-09-16-3.jpg|thumb|right|The domed Round Reading Room]] In 2001 King's College London acquired the building from the [[Crown Estate]] and appointed a design team led by Gaunt Francis Architects to oversee the renovation. The renovation took two-years, at a cost of £35m. During the works, two rare painted [[zinc]] ceilings from the 1860s (one forms part of the ceiling of the round reading room and another is located above the lobby entrance) and a fine 1901 [[Tessellation|tessellated]] floor were discovered.<ref name="tour"/> Former president of [[RIBA]], [[Maxwell Hutchinson]] commented on the project, "I have to say that this is one of the best marriages between an important redundant building and a new use I've come across in a very long time."<ref name="comment140-2">{{cite book|title="£4m Gift for King's", ''Comment (Issue No. 140)''|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/newsevents/publications/comment-archive/pdfs/2002/comment-140.pdf |date=March 2002|publisher=King's College London|location=London|page=2 }}</ref> The library was opened by [[Queen Elizabeth II]] in November 2002, and the project received the 2003 City Heritage Award.<ref name="tft"/> The library was named after [[Deryck Maughan|Sir Deryck Maughan]], an [[alumnus]] of King's, who together with Lady Maughan made a £4m donation towards the new university library.<ref name="comment140">{{cite book|title="£4m Gift for King's", ''Comment (Issue No. 140)''|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/newsevents/publications/comment-archive/pdfs/2002/comment-140.pdf |date=March 2002|publisher=King's College London|location=London|pages=1–2 }}</ref> It is the largest new university library in Britain since [[World War II]].<ref name="times"/><ref name="tft">{{cite web|url=http://www.tftconsultants.com/files/case_studies/maughan_library.pdf |title=Maughan Library| publisher=Tuffin Ferraby Taylor LLP |access-date=19 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="independent">{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/student/into-university/az-uni-colleges/kings-college-london-458960.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220512/https://www.independent.co.uk/student/into-university/az-uni-colleges/kings-college-london-458960.html |archive-date=12 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=King's College London|work=The Independent|date=1 July 2012|location=London|access-date=19 January 2013}}</ref>

The surviving part of the chapel is called the Weston Room, following a donation from the [[Garfield Weston Foundation]], and is used to as an exhibition space for the Foyle Special Collections Library.<ref name="c18">{{cite web|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/news_details.php?year=2002&news_id=493|title=C18th volumes presented to King's|date=22 November 2002|location=London|publisher=King's College London|access-date=25 February 2013|archive-date=10 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510060844/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/news_details.php?news_id=493&year=2002|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Weston Room incorporates many features from the former Rolls Chapel, including stained glass windows, a mosaic floor, and three 16th and 17th century funerary monuments. One is a [[Renaissance]] terracotta figure by [[Pietro Torrigiano]] of [[John Yonge]] (d. 1516), Master of the Rolls and [[Dean of York]], described as the "earliest Renaissance monument in England".<ref name="hibbert"/> The Tudor roses and a lunette of angels found on the back of the [[sarcophagus]] resemble those on [[Henry VII of England|Henry VII]]'s monument, also by Torrigiano, located in [[Westminster Abbey]]. Another is of [[Richard Allington (died 1561)|Richard Allington]] (d. 1561), and is probably the work of one of the Curl family, [[Flanders|Flemish]] master [[stone mason|masons]] to the Crown. A third is of [[Edward Bruce, 1st Lord Kinloss|Lord Bruce of Kinloss]] (d. 1616), Master of the Rolls. It depicts him with his daughter, who was married in the Rolls Chapel to the future [[Earl of Devonshire]] and his son, who would be created [[Earl of Elgin]]. The stained glass windows display the arms of former Master of the Rolls, including those of Henry Prince of Wales, [[Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley|Sir Thomas Egerton]], [[Sir Robert Cecil]] and [[Edward Phelips (speaker)|Sir Edward Phelips]], and date from 1611.<ref name="hibbert"/> Stained glass panels of the [[coat of arms]] of [[George IV]] dated 1823 were originally placed in the east window of the chapel and were rediscovered during the restoration works in 2002. Their restoration was funded by [[The Crown Estate]] to mark the opening of the library.<ref>Plaque beneath display.</ref>

The building has 1,250 networked reader places in a variety of environments including individual study [[Carrel desk|carrels]] and group study rooms.<ref name="guardian">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2002/nov/14/highereducation.museums|title=Queen welcomed by King's|author=MacLeod, Donald|work=The Guardian|date=14 November 2002|access-date=18 March 2013}}</ref><ref name="open">{{cite web|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/news_details.php?news_id=254&year=2003|title=King's takes part in the London Open House Weekend|publisher=King's College London|date=15 September 2003|access-date=18 March 2013|archive-date=28 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130628033819/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/news_details.php?year=2003&news_id=254|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Holdings==

The Maughan holds more than 750,000 items including books, journals, CDs, records, DVDs, theses and exam papers.<ref name="tour"/> These items cover four of the college's academic schools of study: [[King's College London School of Arts and Humanities|Arts and Humanities]], [[The Dickson Poon School of Law|Law]], Natural & Mathematical Sciences and Social Science & Public Policy. This includes the pre-2020 [[Chartered Institute of Taxation]]'s Tony Arnold Library and the post-1850 collection of [[Sion College]]. The library also holds more than 150,000 [[Gramophone record|78rpm records]] donated by the [[BBC]] in 2001 which span a wide range of genres.<ref name="bbc">{{cite web |url=http://www.cecilia-uk.org/html/search/verb/GetRecord/382/ |title=Details of King's Sound Archive at Cecilia |publisher=Cecilia |access-date=9 October 2007 |archive-date=25 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725151638/http://www.cecilia-uk.org/html/search/verb/GetRecord/382/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> In addition to the main catalogue the library holds special collections, and archives which contain around 5 million documents in total.<ref name="archives">{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/collections/archivespec/about/index.aspx |title=About us – Archives & Special Collections|publisher=King's College London|location=London|access-date=25 February 2013}}</ref>

===Foyle Special Collections Library===

The library is also home to the Foyle Special Collections Library, named in recognition of a grant from the [[Foyles|Foyle Foundation]], which houses approximately 170,000 printed works, as well as maps, slides, sound recordings and manuscript material.<ref name="c18"/><ref name="archives"/><ref name="foyle">{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/collections/archivespec/collections/specialcollections.aspx |title=Special Collections |publisher=King's College London|access-date=19 January 2013}}</ref> Included among the manuscript material is the [[Carnegie Collection of British Music]], a collection of original signed manuscripts, many of them by notable composers, whose publication was funded by the philanthropist [[Andrew Carnegie]] via the [[Carnegie UK Trust]].<ref name="carnegie">{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/collections/archivespec/collections/carnegie.aspx |title=Carnegie Collection of British Music |publisher=King's College London|location=London|access-date=19 January 2013}}</ref> The collection also contains several volumes of [[incunabula]] (works printed before 1501).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/collections/archivespec/collections/incunabula.aspx|title=Incunabula at King's|publisher=King's College London|access-date=25 February 2013 }}</ref> The collections range in date from the fifteenth century to the present day. In 2007 the library acquired the historical collections of the [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office|British Foreign and Commonwealth Office]], which includes Britain's [[War of 1812|1812 declaration of war]] on the US, and contains over 60,000 items. The collections include:<ref name="foyle"/> [[File:Happy Birthday Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office library!.jpg|thumb|In 2026 The Foreign and Commonwealth Office library celebrated its 225th birthday]] * [[H. G. Adler|HG Adler]] Collection * [[Jeremy Adler]] Collection * Box Collection * [[Carnegie Collection of British Music|The Carnegie Collection of British Music]] * Cohn Collection * College Collection * [[Gavin de Beer|De Beer]] Collection * Early Science Collection * [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office|The Foreign and Commonwealth Office]] Historical Collection * [[Guy's Hospital]] Physical Society Collection * Institute for the Study and Treatment of Delinquency Collection * [[King's College London School of Medicine and Dentistry|King's College School of Medicine and Dentistry]] Historical Collection * Miscellaneous Collection * [[Bernarr Rainbow|Rainbow]] Collection * [[Reginald Ruggles Gates]] Collection * [[Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing|The Stebbing]] Collection * [[St Thomas' Hospital]] Historical Collection * [[Charles Wheatstone|Wheatstone]] Collection

[[Image:A view from one of the postgraduate study carrels at the Clock Tower of Maughan Library, King's College London..jpg|thumb|right|170px|A view from one of the postgraduate study carrels at the Clock Tower at dusk]]

===Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives=== {{main article|Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives}}

Established in 1964, the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives (LHCMA) is a leading repository for research into modern defence policy in the United Kingdom. The collections are of national and international importance and were awarded [[Designation Scheme|Designated Status]] by the [[Museums, Libraries and Archives Council]] in 2005. The core of the collection comprises the private papers of over 700 senior British military personnel who held office since 1900. Other highlights include the former private library of Captain Sir [[Basil Liddell Hart]], after whom the centre is named.<ref name="archives"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/collections/archivespec/collections/lhcma.aspx|title=Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives|publisher=King's College London|location=London|access-date=25 February 2013 }}</ref>

==Garden== [[File:Maughan Library of King's College London - geograph.org.uk - 463480.jpg|One of the 'green rooms' of the library garden|thumb|right|170px]]

The garden opposite the library was originally owned by [[Clifford's Inn]], and part of the garden was acquired by the Public Record Office in 1912. Following the acquisition of the site by King's a new garden was commissioned. The garden was designed by George Carter and won the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association's London Spade Award in 2003.<ref name="garden">{{cite web|url=https://londongardenstrust.org/conservation/inventory/site-record/?ID=COL040 |title=Site details: King's College London Strand Campus, Maughan Library and Information Services Centre|author1=London Parks |author2=Gardens Trust |name-list-style=amp |location=London|date=1 June 2010|access-date=26 February 2013 }}</ref> The design is based on three 'green rooms' designed to complement the original storeroom cells of the building. There is an emphasis on shades of green rather than colour planting, with the use of [[hornbeam]], [[Tilia|lime]] and [[yew]]. The garden has two sculptures and a small [[water feature]]. One of the sculptures is by Dorothy Brook, and a [[bronze]] [[statue]] of [[Confucius]], located in the centre 'room', was donated by [[The Confucian Academy]] in 2010 to mark the official launch of the Lau China Institute.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/newsevents/news/newsrecords/2010/oct/KingsChinaInstitutelaunched.aspx|title=King's China Institute launched|date=25 October 2010|access-date=26 February 2013|publisher=King's College London|location=London }}</ref> A series of [[relief]] [[Commemorative plaque|plaques]] of the [[continent]]s by [[Walter Crane]] are installed on a small brick building now used for storing bicycles. These were formerly on St Dunstan's House situated on Fetter Lane, which was demolished in 1976,<ref name="garden"/> and the grounds where the house was situated paved the way for new luxury residential apartments to be built.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/newsrecords/2013/july/buildingwork.aspx|title=Building work adjacent to the Maughan Library|publisher=King's College London|access-date=25 July 2016|archive-date=23 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160923161206/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/newsrecords/2013/july/buildingwork.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.ft.com/content/6fceedce-729c-11e5-bdb1-e6e4767162cc|title=The case for buying in London's legal heartland – Chancery Lane|work=Financial Times|date=23 October 2015 |access-date=25 July 2016}}</ref>

==In fiction==

The dodecagonal reading room is one of the locations consulted by Robert Langdon and Sophie Neveu in chapters 92 and 95 of the [[Dan Brown]] novel, ''[[The Da Vinci Code]]''.<ref name="tour"/> The library was also used as a filming location for exterior shots of the [[Tower of London]] in the 2003 film, ''[[Johnny English]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.british-film-locations.com/scene-zd/Johnny-English-2003|title=Johnny English (2003)|publisher=British-Film-Locations.com|access-date=28 February 2013}}</ref> Part of the music video of the song ''Twilight's Chapter Seven'' from the album ''[[Still Fantasy]]'' by [[Taiwanese people|Taiwanese]] musician [[Jay Chou]] was filmed at the Maughan.<ref>{{cite AV media |people=[[Jay Chou]] |year=2006 |title=夜的第七章 |trans-title=Twilight's Chapter Seven |medium=Video |language=Taiwanese Hokkien |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRUg70fCmro?t=2m46s |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/aRUg70fCmro| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|access-date=28 February 2013 |time=2m 46s |via=YouTube }}{{cbignore}}</ref> The use of the round reading room as a filming location for Dumbledore's Office in the ''[[Harry Potter (film series)|Harry Potter]]'' films has been the source of considerable talk and rumour,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/ug/wp/KPlusWeb.pdf|title=K+ "10 facts about King's"|page=15|publisher=King's College London|location=London|access-date=25 February 2013|archive-date=22 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130622222554/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/ug/wp/KPlusWeb.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> however, a feature in an edition of the King's Library Newsletter confirms that this is in fact a myth, though the library receives several requests to film each month.<ref>{{cite web|title=King's Library Newsletter|date=Spring 2013|access-date=26 September 2013|page=4|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/library-newsletter-spring-2013.pdf|archive-date=27 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927141655/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/library-newsletter-spring-2013.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> The exterior of the building appears in the 2020 film ''[[Enola Holmes (film)|Enola Holmes]]''.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://screenrant.com/enola-holmes-movie-locations-look-like-then-now/ |title=Every Enola Holmes Filming Location (And What Every Place Looks Like Now) |first=Caroline |last=Fox |date=26 October 2020 |publisher=ScrenRant.com|access-date=29 November 2020}}</ref>

==Vice-chancellor's residence==

The top floor of the Chancery Lane wing of the library building contains a {{convert|1800|sqft|m2|order=flip|adj=on}} flat used as the residence of the [[List of Principals of King's College London|vice-chancellor of King's College London]] during their term of office.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://roarnews.co.uk/?p=13943|title=King's student sneaks into Principal's secret Maughan flat|publisher=Roar News |date=1 December 2014 |access-date=24 July 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://thetab.com/2025/11/07/kings-college-london-vice-chancellor-lives-rent-free-in-luxury-flat-despite-300k-salary|title= Kings College London vice chancellor lives rent free in luxury flat despite £300k salary|work=The Tab|author= Samah Tabba|date=7 November 2025}}</ref>

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==External links== {{Commons category|The Maughan Library}} * {{Official website|http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/visiting/maughan.aspx}} * [http://library.kcl.ac.uk/F?RN=860979217 King's College London Library Catalogue] * [http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/collections/archivespec/collections/specialcollections.aspx Foyle Special Collections Library]

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