Simon Bird QC is Head of Chambers. Chambers moved from 2 Harcourt Buildings to Francis Taylor Building at the beginning of 2007; this was to secure the best quality of facilities for the clients of Chambers as well as accommodating expansion within Chambers. Francis Taylor Building was built in 1957 to the designs of Sir Edward Maufe, replacing buildings destroyed in the Blitz. The site was formerly occupied by the Exchequer Office (1665, rebuilt in 1830) and part of Tanfield Court buildings (1881). Tanfield Court (on the west side of the range, now part of Church Court) was named after Sir Lawrence Tanfield (d. 1625). The name of the present building commemorates Sir Francis Kyffin Taylor QC, later Lord Maenan (d. 1951), a bencher of the Inner Temple for 46 years.