Gray’s Inn Road (A5200) stretches between King Cross St. Pancras Station to the north (connecting into the A501) and Chancery Lane tube Sation to the south, it is home to The Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn, a historic and prestigious Inn of Court – the historic societies that educate and train barristers in England and Wales.
Gray’s Inn Road History
Named after Reginald de Grey, 1st Baron Grey de Wilton who purchased the area in the 13th century, his name was lent to Gray’s Inn, which was founded on the street. By 1468, the road was known as Grays Inn Lane, or Graysynlane. The name “Purtepol Street” is recorded in the time of Henry III and this may be the first reference to the current Gray’s Inn Road. In a document of 1299 it is called “Street of Pourtepol without London”, which is appropriate as Gray’s Inn Road lies only just outside the boundary of the City of London. In a document of 1468 the road is called “Graysynlane, otherwise Portpole Lane”. Today’s Portpool Lane, which leads off Gray’s Inn Road to the east, is a separate road which is not mentioned before 1641.
Gray’s Inn Road buildings
Some buildings to note along Gray’s Inn Road;
- Gray’s Inn Buildings
- ITN Building (former Times Newspapers building), designed in 1991 by Foster and Partners
- The UCL Ear Institute, which opened in 2005 next to the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital. The latter closed in 2019, when its services moved to a new building in Bloomsbury, along with those of the Eastman Dental Hospital, which was also in Gray’s Inn Road
- ITV
- London Welsh Centre
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