Lambeth Magistrates' Court is a former

magistrates' court A magistrates' court is a lower court where, in several jurisdictions, all criminal proceedings start. Also some civil matters may be dealt with here, such as family proceedings. Courts * Magistrates' court (England and Wales) * Magistrate's Cour ...

building in Renfrew Road,

Kennington Kennington is a district in south London, England. It is mainly within the London Borough of Lambeth, running along the boundary with the London Borough of Southwark, a boundary which can be discerned from the early medieval period between the ...

SE11, in the

London Borough of Lambeth Lambeth () is a London boroughs, London borough in South London, England, which forms part of Inner London. Its name was recorded in 1062 as ''Lambehitha'' ("landing place for lambs") and in 1255 as ''Lambeth''. The geographical centre of London ...

. It was originally known as Lambeth Police Court. It is now home to the Jamyang Buddhist Centre. It is a

Grade II-listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...

building, built in 1869 and designed by

Thomas Charles Sorby Thomas Charles Sorby (1836-1924) was a British architect, who emigrated to Canada in 1883, where he mostly worked in Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia. Thomas Charles Sorby was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, and studied architecture in Londo ...

in the

Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

style. It is "the earliest surviving example of a Criminal Magistrates Court in the Metropolitan area".

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* Grade II listed buildings in the London Borough of Lambeth Kennington {{London-struct-stub