The Maughan Library

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The Maughan Library - King Henry III

The Domus Conversorum (House of Converts) was built in King Henry III’s  reign (Chancery Lane) to help convert Jewish people to Christianity; today the site is the Maughan Library of King’s College, Chancery Lane, London.

The Maughan Library - Chancery Lane, Holborn - was the site of the Domus Conversorum (1232) and in 1377 House of the Master of the Rolls, in 1851 the Public Record Office and in 2001 Maughan Library.

Tube stations: Temple (Circle and District Lines) 8 minutes’ walk via The Strand/Arundel Street; Chancery Lane (Central Line) it is about a 6-minute walk. Closest railway station is Charing Cross.