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building on the south side of High Holborn
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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
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, it is used as the London venue for meetings of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries
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, and is the last surviving Inn of Chancery
, the only Inn of Chancery building to survive largely intact
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. It was designated a Grade I listed building
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in 1974.
History
It was originally attached to Gray's Inn
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, which is one of the four Inns of Court
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. 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
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until 1858 and then a civil parish. It became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Holborn
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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
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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
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"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
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, was extensively damaged by a Nazi German
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Luftwaffe
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aerial bomb
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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 #REDIRECTGreat hall#REDIRECTGreat hall
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, used by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries
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. The ground-floor street frontage is let to shops and restaurants, required to use plainer signage
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than they do on less sensitive buildings. For a time the building appeared on the packaging of Old Holborn
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tobacco.
See also
* List of buildings that survived the Great Fire of LondonReferences
External links
History of Staple Inn from the Institute of Actuaries
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