New Court History

New Court Chambers is located on two floors of a handsome town house known as " New Court" which lies within the precinct of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple in the City of London, on the boundary between the City of London and the City of Westminster. New Court was designed by Sir Christopher Wren, a 17th Century London Architect and was built and completed in 1667. The building, while under construction was spared by the Great Fire of London in 1666, which stopped just yards from its building site. The whole court yard where New Court now stands was rebuilt and the Court was ‘renewed’ in 1667, hence the present name: "New Court". Members of Chambers can still enjoy, as in the past, the pleasure of the Devereux Public House, once the location of two famous 18th Century Coffee Houses: "Tom’s" familiar to Alexander Pope and "The Grecian", dating back to 1665 run by a Greek gentleman called Constantine, a meeting place for scholars and barristers.  Adjoining to New Court there is one of the entrances to the Middle Temple known as the "Little Gate" with its iron scrollwork attributed to the same architect Sir Christopher Wren, now known as the ''Judge’s Gate'' which leads inter alia to the High Court.