Chancery Lane
Chancery Lane is a street in London. It connects Temple Bar on Fleet Street to the south with the High Holborn thoroughfare and Gray's Inn to the north. The curved road runs uphill from south to north.
Chancery Lane is just outside the medieval city limits of London. Since 1994 it has been exactly on the border between the City of London , the City of Westminster and the London Borough of Camden . The houses on the east side and the street belong to the City, the south houses on the west side to Westminster, the northern houses on the west side to Camden. The architecture is mainly characterized by Victorian office buildings from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Chancery Lane was created by the Knights Templar around 1160 and originally ran through its fields. It served as a link between the old temple on today's Holborn Street and its new temple on today's Temple Bar. Originally it was called Newstrate . In 1278 her name was Converslane after the Domus Conversorum , a house for converted Jews that had been built on the road. In 1377 Edward III. the street to the Keeper of the Rolls of Chancery , after which the street got its current name. According to other sources, it got its name from the new London city palace of the Bishops of Chichester , which Bishop Ralph de Neville had built in the first half of the 13th century. In addition to being a bishop, Neville was also a long-time Lord Chancellor , so the street was named after his palace. In the 16th century, the street was surrounded by gardens - on the west side they belonged to Lincoln's Inn , the gardens of the Bishops of Chichester and Lincoln on the east side of the street.
Today the street is particularly shaped by the actors of the English legal system. The Lincoln's Inn characterizes the northwest section of the street. The Maughan Library from King's College , the former Public Record Office , the London Silver Vaults and various traditional men's outfitters such as Ede and Ravenscroft are also located on Chancerly Lane .
literature
- Simon Bradley, Nikolaus Pevsner: London 1, The city of London, 1997, London: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-071092-2 , pp. 449-452
Web links
- Chancery Lane Association
- City of London: Chancery Lane Conservation Area (pdf; 2.9 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fred A. Cazel, Jr: Neville, Ralph de (d. 1244). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004