tilting-place

Updated: May 4, 2025

A pillar, said to have been designed by Inigo Jones, stood in New Square, or, as it was called from a lessee at the beginning of the eighteenth century, Searle's Court. This ground and the site of the Law Courts formed part of Fickett's Field, the tilting-place of the Templars. Over the arch of the gate are carved three shields of arms.

Sir Walter Besant - Holborn and Bloomsbury: The Fascination of London