Staple Inn

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  • Address
    High Holborn, Holborn, WC1V 7QJ
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  • Phone
    7632 2165
  • Transport
    underground rail: Chancery Lane

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The 16th-century shop front facade is the main interest at Staple Inn (1589), the last of eight Inns of Chancery whose functions were superseded by the Inns of Court in the 18th century. The buildings, mostly postwar reconstructions, are now occupied by the Institute of Actuaries and aren't open to the public, but nobody seems to mind a discreet and considerate look around.

On the same side of Holborn but closer to Fetter Lane stood Barnard's Inn, redeveloped in 1991. Pip lived here with Herbert Pocket in Dickens' Great Expectations .