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

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.