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Furnival's Inn was an Inn of Chancery which formerly stood on the site of the present Holborn Bars building (the former Prudential Assurance Company building) in Holborn, London, England.
Founded as one of London's inns of court late in the fourteenth century, Furnival's, an extension of Lincoln's Inn, survived the Great Fire of 1666, and was one of the nine Inns of Chancery from 1383 to 1817.
Furnival's Inn, formerly located at the site of the current Holborn Bars building, was an Inn of Chancery – a less prestigious counterpart to the Inns of Court. Its establishment dates back to around 1383 when William de Furnival, 4th Lord Furnival, leased a boarding facility to Clerks of Chancery.
A lantern slide in the archive illustrates Dickens's building (since destroyed), and the Inn is described in Martin Chuzzlewit as 'a shady, quiet place... rather monotonous and gloomy on summer evenings'. Lantern slide of Dickens's chambers in Furnival's Inn (MT.19/SLI/123)
Dickens features most of the Inns of Chancery in his fiction — at a time when their connection with the law was loosening or already severed. Furnival’s Inn, one of a number clustered around Holborn, had an association with Lincoln’s Inn from 1348.
11 nov 2022 · While living at Furnival’s Inn, Dickens wrote Sketches by Boz as well as Pickwick Papers. With the rooms situated centrally in London, beside the thoroughfare called Holborn, the location was ideally situated for the up-and-coming writer Charles Dickens from December 1834 until 1837.
"FURNIVAL'S-INN, Holborn, is on the north side between Leather-lane and Gray's-inn-lane. It is one of the Inns of Chancery, and took its name, according to Stow, from having anciently belonged to Sir William Furnival.
