Chancery Lane

Chancery Lane is a street in London. It combines Temple Bar in Fleet Street in the south with the thoroughfare High Holborn and Gray 's Inn in the north. The curved road runs from south to north up the hill.

Chancery Lane is outside the medieval city limits London. Since 1994, it lies right on the border between the City of London, City of Westminster and the London Borough of Camden. The houses on the east side and the road belong to the side, the southern houses of the west side to Westminster, the northern houses on the west side to Camden. The architecture is mainly characterized by ciktorianischen office buildings from the 19th and early 20th century.

Chancery Lane was created in 1160 by the Knights Templar and was originally through its fields. It served as a link between the ancient temples at the present Holborn Street and their new temple at today's Temple Bar was originally called it News rate. In 1278, her name was Converslane for a house for converted Jews, which had been built on the street. In 1377 Edward III gave. the road to the Keeper of the Rolls of Chancery. 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 road.

The road today is characterized especially by the actors of the English legal system. The Lincoln 's Inn characterizes the northwestern section of the road. At the Chancerly Lane is also the The Maughan Library of King's College, formerly the Public Record Office, The London Silver Vaults and various traditional gentlemen's outfitter Ede and Ravenscroft.