Serjeant's Inn

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Serjeant's Inn, Fleet Street, London, was one of the two inns of the Serjeants-at-Law. The Fleet Street inn dated from 1443 and the Chancery Lane inn dated from 1416. Both buildings were destroyed in the World War Two 1941 bombing raids.

By 1500 there were two Serjeants' Inns. They accommodated two societies of Serjeants-at-law. In 1730, the Fleet Street lease was not renewed and the two societies merged. The last Serjeants' Inn, the one in Chancery Lane, was sold in 1877, although the Society was not dissolved. The last member died in 1921.

The site is now effectively part of the precincts of the Inner Temple, which has recently acquired most of the buildings from its former commercial occupiers). There is speculation that the remaining buildings will be redeveloped.