London Prints

10x15 cm

SERJEANT'S INN, Chancery Lane.
Pub.d May 30.1820 by W.Emans, 7,London Road.

During the Georgian and early Victorian periods Serjeants' Inn was the only remaining Inn of Court for the judges and serjeants of the law. The Inn on Chancery Lane was the third site of a Serjeants' Inn, the first, Scropes Inn, stood on the north side of Holborn, abandoned in 1498, and the second, Fleet Street Inn, stood on the south side of Fleet Street and at the north-east corner of the Temple, destroyed in the Fire of London in 1666. The Serjeants sold Chancery Lane Inn in 1877.
Hand coloured copper engraving. Dated watermark 1821.