Serjeant's Inn

Serjeant's Inn (formerly Serjeants' Inn) was the legal inn of the

A. M. Sullivan, who died in 1959, was appointed to the equivalent Irish office in 1912, when the English society had effectively dissolved.) The Fleet Street building was destroyed in the 1941 bombing raids during World War II

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Fleet Street site today

The lease of the site of the former Serjeants' Inn on Fleet Street was taken on in 1737 by the Amicable Society for a Perpetual Assurance Office, the first life insurance company in the world, who raised a new building on the site in 1792–93, designed by Robert Adam.^[1] The site was redeveloped after the destruction of this building in the Second World War, but retained its name and a physical connection with the Inns of Court, since the modern buildings, although commercially occupied, stand around a small courtyard used for parking which connects to the Inner Temple through an archway which allows pedestrian access.

That site is now, therefore, effectively part of the precincts of the

the Temple. Moreover, in 2001 the Inner Temple acquired the freehold from its former commercial occupiers.^{[citation needed]} The Inner Temple announced its intention to use the space for barristers' chambers, like those in the Inner Temple itself. However, in March 2008 it informed its members that both refurbishment and rebuilding for this purpose had proved to be financially unviable, and that it had therefore granted a long lease for hotel premises at 1–2 Serjeants' Inn to recover its acquisition costs.^[2] The Apex Temple Court Hotel opened in March 2012.^[3]

No. 3 Serjeant's Inn has been a barristers' chambers, occupying commercial premises, since 1986.[4] Mitre Court, which connects the Inner Temple area, Serjeants' Inn and Fleet Street, has also recently^[when?] become home to barristers' chambers.

References

^ Hamey, Baldwin (4 March 2013). "Serjeants' Inn". London Details blog. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
^ "Apex Temple Court". Ian Springford Architects. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
^ "New Hotel Opening". Apex Hotels. Archived from the original on 18 July 2012. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
^ "History of Serjeants' Inn". Serjeants' Inn Chambers. Retrieved 9 August 2014.

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Fleet Street site today

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