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Sudden death and the LCC: accommodation for inquests in London before the First World War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Clare Graham
Clare Graham
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School of Architectural StudiesUniversity of SheffieldThe Arts Tower Western Bank Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom
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Abstract

Developing a new building type raises questions of accommodation appearance and cost. This paper sets in context the emergence, development and decay of one highly specialised and localised building type – the purpose-built coroner's court which appeared in the metropolis in the 1870s. Surviving references suggest how far the existence and the details of the coroner's courts owed to a particular and short-lived combination of procedural requirements, administrative wrangles and social pressures.

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arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , Winter 1995 , pp. 60 - 69
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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