What has this building seen over the centuries? A survivor of bombs, fire and development, in Holborn you can find a brilliant remnant of Tudor period. Staple Inn started life as a wool market, with the current building having been constructed in 1585 as an ‘Inn of Chancery’, a place for law students to stay, learn and work. The facade is the only in tact bit left from the 16th century as the Tudor hall behind was destroyed by a V1 flying bomb in 1944, although some of the original timbers were