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Combined coat of arms of the four Inns of Court. Gray's Inn's arms are at the bottom-right.
Gray's Inn entrance
Entrance to Gray's Inn.

The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn is one of the four Inns of Court around the Royal Courts of Justice in London. They may call members to the Bar and allow them to practice as barristers. The other Inns are Middle Temple, Lincoln's Inn and Inner Temple.

It is situated in Holborn, in the London Borough of Camden, just on the border with the City of London and the City of Westminster.

Images for kids

  • A grassy foreground, with a tall tree and shrubs, with a terrace of red brick buildings in the background and left side

    Gray's Inn Square, London WC1

  • St Giles & Holborn Civil Parish Map 1870

    A map showing the boundaries of the Inn in 1870

  • Woman, facing left, with a tiara on red-coloured hair, wearing voluminous and heavily decorated clothing with large sleeves, tight waist and a ruff round the neck. A crown on a table is visible in the background

    Elizabeth I of England, who served as the Inn's patron during its "golden age".

  • II Gray's Inn, London, UK 2

    Francis Bacon House at Gray's Inn

  • Old layout of Gray's Inn, showing the buildings, the walks and the surrounding roads

    A 1677 map of Gray's Inn at Holborn.

  • A grassy area with floral shrubs and a central statue on a plinth, with terraced buildings in the background

    South Square, Gray's Inn WC1.

  • The Badge, roughly shield-shaped, shows a gold griffin on a black background

    The Gray's Inn badge (a gold griffin on a black field)

  • Layout of Gray's Inn, taken from a birds-eye view, showing the Inn as a single walled compound still surrounded by fields.

    The Inn's buildings and walks, in a compound on the left hand side of "Greys ynne la.", shown on the "Woodcut" map of London of the 1560s

  • A large brick rectangular building, with a darker tiled sloping roof; the corners and buttresses of the building have larger white stone blocks as edging, instead of bricks. On the end of the longer side, a porch (approximately half the height of the main building), with four steps leading up to an arch and a large wooden door; above the door, a coat of arms of a golden griffin on a black shield; the wall of the longer side of the building has five brick buttresses, four small high windows and one large oriel window

    Gray's Inn Hall, London WC1

  • A depiction of the Inn, with special emphasis on the Walks. The rural nature of the surrounding countryside is still evident in the background.

    An image from 1702 showing the Walks.


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