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Staple Inn is a part- Tudor building on the south side of
It was originally attached to 
On 1 April 1994 boundary changes meant that the Inn was transferred from the
History of Staple Inn from the Institute of ActuariesBarristers Chambers in Staple Inn
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Staple Inn is a part- Tudor building on the south side of High Holborn
High Holborn ( ) is a street in Holborn and Farringdon Without, Central London, which forms a part of the A40 route from London to Fishguard. It starts in the west at the eastern end of St Giles High Street and runs past the Kingsway and S ...
street in the City of London
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, London
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, England
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. Located near Chancery Lane tube station
Chancery Lane is a London Underground station on the Central Line between Holborn and The City in Central London, England. It has entrances within both the London Borough of Camden and the City of London. It opened in 1900 and takes its na ...
, it is used as the London venue for meetings of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries
The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries is the professional body which represents and regulates actuaries in the United Kingdom.
History
The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries came into being on 1 August 2010 as a result of the merger of the Ins ...
, and is the last surviving Inn of Chancery
The Inns of Chancery or ''Hospida Cancellarie'' were a group of buildings and legal institutions in London initially attached to the Inns of Court and used as offices for the clerks of chancery, from which they drew their name. Existing from a ...
. It was designated a Grade I listed building
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 I ...
in 1974.
History
It was originally attached to Gray's Inn
The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn, commonly known as Gray's Inn, is one of the four Inns of Court (professional associations for barristers and judges) in London. To be called to the bar in order to practise as a barrister in England and W ...
, which is one of the four Inns of Court
The Inns of Court in London are the professional associations for barristers in England and Wales. There are four Inns of Court – Gray's Inn, Lincoln's Inn, Inner Temple and Middle Temple.
All barristers must belong to one of them. They have ...
. The Inns of Chancery fell into decay in the 19th century. All of them were dissolved, and most were demolished. Staple Inn is the only one which survives largely intact. It was an extra-parochial area
In England and Wales, an extra-parochial area, extra-parochial place or extra-parochial district was a geographically defined area considered to be outside any ecclesiastical or civil parish. Anomalies in the parochial system meant they had no ch ...
until 1858 and then a civil parish. It became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Holborn
The Metropolitan Borough of Holborn was a metropolitan borough in the County of London between 1900 and 1965, when it was amalgamated with the Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras and the Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead to form the London Boroug ...
in 1900 and was abolished in 1930.
On 1 April 1994 boundary changes meant that the Inn was transferred from the London Borough of Camden
The London Borough of Camden () is a London borough in Inner London. Camden Town Hall, on Euston Road, lies north of Charing Cross. The borough was established on 1 April 1965 from the area of the former boroughs of Hampstead, Holborn, and S ...
to the City of London (and the City ward
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of Farringdon Without
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).
It was the model for the fictitious Inn of Court
The Inns of Court in London are the professional associations for barristers in England and Wales. There are four Inns of Court – Gray's Inn, Lincoln's Inn, Inner Temple and Middle Temple.
All barristers must belong to one of them. They ...
"Bacon's Inn" in Arthur Moore's 1904 novel ''Archers of the Long Bow''. The ancient switch-tailed double pump referred to was replaced in 1937 by a mock single pump, to mark the site.Pictures of both pumps are available at spitalfieldslife.com/2012/01/10/the-pumps-of-old-london/
Wool staple
Staple Inn dates from 1585. The building was once the wool staple, where wool was weighed and taxed. It survived theGreat Fire of London
The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through central London from Sunday 2 September to Thursday 6 September 1666, gutting the medieval City of London inside the old Roman city wall, while also extending past th ...
, was extensively damaged by a Nazi German
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Luftwaffe
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aerial bomb
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The use of aerial bombs is termed aerial bombing.
...
in 1944 but was subsequently restored. It has a distinctive timber-framed
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façade, cruck
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roof and an internal courtyard.
The historic interiors include a great hall
A great hall is the main room of a royal palace, castle or a large manor house or hall house in the Middle Ages, and continued to be built in the country houses of the 16th and early 17th centuries, although by then the family used the gr ...
, used by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries
The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries is the professional body which represents and regulates actuaries in the United Kingdom.
History
The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries came into being on 1 August 2010 as a result of the merger of the Ins ...
. The ground-floor street frontage is let to shops and restaurants, required to use plainer signage
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Signs are any ...
than they do on less sensitive buildings. For a time the building appeared on the packaging of Old Holborn tobacco.
See also
*List of buildings that survived the Great Fire of London
This is a list of buildings that survived the Great Fire of London in 1666 and are still standing.
See also
* Great Fire of London
* List of demolished buildings and structures in London
This list of demolished buildings and structures ...
References
External links
History of Staple Inn from the Institute of Actuaries
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