Middlesex Guildhall
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The Middlesex Guildhall is a building on the south-west corner of Parliament Square in London. It is currently used by the Crown Court, having previously been used by Middlesex County Council.
It is designated to be the building for the future Supreme Court of the United Kingdom as created by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, which will be made up of the Law Lords, who currently carry out the judicial functions of the House of Lords. The building is to be renovated according to plans by Lord Foster of Thames Bank.
The bulk of the current building was built between 1906 and 1913, designed by J S Gibson, in what Pevsner termed an art nouveau gothic theme, and decorated with mediæval-looking gargoyles and other architectural sculptures, some by Henry Charles Fehr. It incorporates in the rear a doorway dating from the 17th century, a part of the Tothill Fields Prison which used to stand on the site. Westminster was not in the administrative county of Middlesex even at the time of its construction, however the county council was based here.
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