I had dinner last night in the Lincoln’s Inn Great Hall with the upper echelons of the legal profession in white tie and decorations.   I have sometimes walked through Lincoln’s Inn with its mowed lawns and atmosphere of academic seclusion, but had never penetrated the Great Hall, which makes Oxbridge dining halls look small-scale and has a huge and not wholly successful fresco by G.F. Watts depicting A Hemicycle of Lawgivers, including Moses, Confucius and King Alfred, as well as Tennyson impersonating Minos.

This morning I went to check out the architecture of the Stone Buildings with their grand neoclassical façade, designed by Sir Robert Taylor:-

And New Square, otherwise known as Serle’s Court, with its brick sets of chambers:-