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Furnival's Inn was an area for local government partly in the City of London and partly in Middlesex. It was an extra-parochial area and became a civil parish in 1858 within the Holborn Poor Law Union. The part within the City of London was transferred to St Andrew Holborn in 1900.
Founded as one of London's inns of court late in the fourteenth century, Furnival's, an extension of Lincoln's Inn, survived the Great Fire of 1666, and was one of the nine Inns of Chancery from 1383 to 1817. Dissociated from the legal system in the early nineteenth century, the medieval building was demolished in 1818; then a decade later a ...
Furnival's Inn, formerly located at the site of the current Holborn Bars building, was an Inn of Chancery – a less prestigious counterpart to the Inns of Court. Its establishment dates back to around 1383 when William de Furnival, 4th Lord Furnival, leased a boarding facility to Clerks of Chancery.
Dickens features most of the Inns of Chancery in his fiction — at a time when their connection with the law was loosening or already severed. Furnival’s Inn, one of a number clustered around Holborn, had an association with Lincoln’s Inn from 1348.
Nov 11, 2022 · Dickens shared his original bachelor apartments at No 13 Furnival’s Inn with his younger brother, Frederick. After his marriage to Catherine Hogarth on 2 April 1836, Dickens had a brief honeymoon in Chalk, in Kent, before returning with his bride to the larger chambers at No 15 Furnival’s Inn.
Gray’s Inn had two: Staple Inn and Barnard’s Inn, both still surviving in part at least. Lincoln’s Inn had two Inn’s of Chancery attached, Thavie’s Inn which is lost and Furnival’s Inn which was knocked down in 1897 to make way for the brown gothic Prudential building on High Holborn.
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"FURNIVAL'S-INN, Holborn, is on the north side between Leather-lane and Gray's-inn-lane. It is one of the Inns of Chancery, and took its name, according to Stow, from having anciently belonged to Sir William Furnival.
