Staple Inn - Hall, ca.1885

From: Henry Dixon & Son

RA Collection: Art

""Then is Staple Inn," says Stow, "but whereof so named I am ignorant." A tradition would make this the Inn of the Merchants of the Staple. The Hall - "a fayre hall of brick" - was rebuilt, as we learn from Sir George Buc (quoted in Cunningham's Handbook), about 1630. The doorway, of "Strawberry Hill Gothic," bears the date 1753. A photograph in this series (No.24) showed the Holborn front of Staple Inn."

The above description, by Alfred Marks, was taken from the letterpress which accompanies the photographs.