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Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn

Barnard's Inn Hall on the south side of Holborn was also an Inn of Chancery in Georgian times and an appendage to Gray's Inn. It was anciently called Mackworth's Inn, and was given to the society in 1454 by John Mackworth, the Dean of Lincoln.

The inn had fallen into disrepair by the middle of the 1800s and in 1892 the Mercers Company purchased the Inn for £43,000 to use as a Mercers' School. The buildings, much damaged during World War II remain in the ownership of the Mercers.

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