Lambeth work

Lambeth Palace, home of the Archbishop of Canterbury, is to get its first new building for 180 years: a modern library to house its religious treasures. Architects Wright & Wright have been appointed amid concerns that the existing library – situated in several buildings including the medieval entrance tower – cannot safely preserve the collection’s 200,000 printed books and manuscripts. The second- largest collection of its kind in Europe after the Vatican, it includes the execution papers of Mary, Queen of Scots.