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.
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Furnival's Inn was founded about 1383, and was attached to Lincoln's Inn. Although it survived the Great Fire of London, the Inn, together with the other Inns of Chancery, ceased to exist in the 19th century. The Inn was dissolved as a society in 1817 when Lincoln's Inn did not renew its lease; the building was rebuilt by a new owner, and that building was demolished in 1897. A plaque marks the site where it stood.
Sir Thomas More was Reader at the Inn from 1504 to 1507 [1], and Charles Dickens rented rooms here between 1834 and 1837, and began to write the Pickwick Papers whilst a tenant. [2], [3].
Furnival's Inn was an area for local government partly in the City of London and partly in Middlesex. It was an extra-parochial area and became a civil parish in 1858 within the Holborn Poor Law Union. The part within the City of London was transferred to St Andrew Holborn in 1900. The remaining parish was part of the Metropolitan Borough of Holborn from 1900 and was abolished as a civil parish in 1930.[1] It was unpopulated after the construction of Holborn Bars.
| Year | 1881 | 1891 | 1901 | 1911 | 1921 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Population | 121 | 121 | 0 | 0 | 0 |