Oxford Arms, 14 Warwick lane, Christ Church Newgate street EC4
Christchurch Newgate index
Warwick lane, Newgate in 1682 with a considerable number of errors. Listed are 325 Oxford arms Inne (should be Salutation Inn) ; 333 Bell Inne (should be Crown Inn); 334 Crown Inne (should be Bell Inn); and 336 Oxford arms Inne.
Warwick lane, Newgate in 1799 showing the Oxford Arms and the Bell Inn.
The inn was established in the sixteenth century and rebuilt following the Great Fire of London. It closed and was demolished in 1876 or 1877. ** John Lockie in 1810 describes the thoroughfare as "Oxford Arms inn, Warwick Lane, is the third on the Right from 10 Newgate street. or the second on the Left from 29 Ludgate Street along Ave Maria lane."
The Roman wall passes very close to the rear - "Keeping at the back of the present prison, the wall passed the ends of the College of Physicians, Warwick Square, the Oxford Arms Inn, Stationers' Hall, and the London Coffee-house, Ludgate Hill, where it abutted at Ludgate, the distance being forty-two perches. From Ludgate it continued by Cock Court to New Bridge Street, where remains of it are at present very perceptible, whence it proceeded along the Fleet Ditch to the east side of Chatham Square and to the Thames, at the distance of one hundred and thirty perches, making up a total of two miles and six hundred and eight feet in circuit."
Oxford Arms, 14 Warwick lane - in about 1875
Historical London public houses, Taverns, Inns, Beer Houses and Hotels.
Residents at this address
1672/Edward Bartlet/../../../London Gazette **
John Strype Survey of London in 1720 - Farringdon Within Ward and Castle Baynard Ward lists and maps '27 Oxford Arms Inn'.
1736/Number 94 in seniority, the Oxford Arms, Ludgate street, and Constituted on 29th June 1732/../../../Masonic Lodges 1736-39
April 5th 1769 - Thomas Hunt is the outgoing innholder from the Angel and Crown, 112 Wood Street, according to an announcement in the Oxford Journal, 8th April 1769. *
6th April, 1769 - Thomas Hunt is the incoming innholder to the Oxford Arms, Warwick Lane according to a newspaper announcement. *
29th September 1792 - Thomas Hunts wife was recorded at the Oxford Arms: "Ann Hunt, Innholder, insured" / National Archives/ London Metropolitan Archives. *
1794 - Widow Hunt / London Land Tax records *
1796 - Thomas Lock recorded as innholder
1796/Thomas Lock/../../../Proceedings of the Old Bailey **
In 1800 - widow Ann Hunt died at the Oxford Arms. *
1802/Ann Palmer / Innholder /../../../Sun Fire Office records, held at Guildhall Library **
In 1802, Widow Palmer is recorded as the innholder of the Oxford Arms, Warwick Lane - being Ann's Hunt's daughter Ann who married Benjamin Palmer in 1779 at the Roman Catholic Sardinian Chapel, Lincoln's Inn twelve months before it was damaged in the 1780 London anti-Catholic Gordon Riots. *
In 1803, Ann Palmer, widow, 49, married Edward Sherman, aged 27.
Edward Sherman went on to become the second largest proprietor of stagecoaches in the UK, from the Bull and Mouth, Bull and Mouth Street, later the Queens Hotel, St Martin's Le Grand. *
Edward Sherman is the Innholder & Carrier at the Oxford Arms, between 1805 and 1852.
1805/Edw Sherman, innkeeper, Oxford Arms Inn, Warwick lane/../../Holdens Directory
1806/Mr Sherman / Innholder //../../../Sun Fire Office records, held at Guildhall Library **
1807/Edward Sherman / Innholder & Carrier //../../../Sun Fire Office records, held at Guildhall Library **
1817/Edward Sherman / Innholder & Carrier //../../../Sun Fire Office records, held at Guildhall Library **
The 1820 and 1822 electoral register list Edward Sherman and Hunt at Oxford Arms passage at several addresses, rents of £25 and also £135 noted
1827/John Bruce, Oxford Arms Inn, 5 Warwick lane/../../Pigots Directory
1833/Edward Sherman / Innholder & Carrier //../../../Sun Fire Officerecords, held at Guildhall Library **
1839/Edward Sherman/../../../Pigot’s Directory **
1841/John Baskerville/Publican/68/../Census
1841/Sarah Baskerville/../56/Foreign/Census
1843/Edward Sherman, Oxford Arms Inn, Warwick Lane/../../Kellys Directory
1848/Edward Sherman, Oxford Arms Inn, Warwick Lane/../../Post Office Directory
1851/Edward Sherman, Oxford Arms Inn, Warwick Lane/../../Kellys Directory
1852/Edward Sherman/../../../Watkin’s Directory **
1854/William Dudley, Oxford Arms Inn, 14 Warwick lane, 9 Newgate street/../../Post Office Directory
By April 1855/William Dudley, of the Oxford Arms, Warwick lane, is the Incoming Licensee to the Butchers Arms, 256 York Road, Islington
1861/James Hammond/Licensed Victualler/59/Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex/Census
1861/Ann Hammond/Wife/60/Little Canfield, Essex/Census
1861/Maria Cooper/Servant/13/Middlesex/Census
1861/Henry Jackson/Lodger, Butcher/28/Fitzroy Square, Middlesex/Census
1861/Joseph Keeping/Lodger, Butcher/21/Potton, Bedfordshire/Census
1862/James Hammond, Oxford Arms Tap, Oxford Arms passage, Warwick lane, Newgate street EC/../../Post Office Directory
1865/William Wersebe, Oxford Arms Tap, Oxford Arms passage, 14 Warwick lane EC/../../Post Office Directory
1871/William Briden, Oxford Arms Tap, Oxford Arms passage, 14 Warwick lane EC/../../Post Office Directory
1871/William Briden/Licensed Victualler/43/Watford, Hertfordshire/Census
1871/Louisa Briden/Wife/43/Beddenham, Hereford/Census
1871/Julia A Briden/Daughter/13/Clerkenwell, London/Census
1871/William Briden/Son/9/Christchurch, London/Census
1871/Arthur Briden/Son/7/Christchurch, London/Census
1871/Harry Briden/Son/3/Christchurch, London/Census
1871/Job Askell/Lodger, Stableman/23/Watford, Hertfordshire/Census
1871/James Southan/Lodger, Stableman/22/Watford, Hertfordshire/Census
1871/Thomas Emery/Lodger, Waste Paper Dealer/26/Middlesex/Census
1871/Mary A Markham/Domestic Servant/42/Clerkenwell/Census
1874/W Briden, Oxford Arms, Oxford Arms passage, Warwick lane, EC/../../Licensed Victuallers and Hotel Keepers Directory
1876/Mrs Louisa Briden, Oxford Arms Tap, Oxford Arms passage, 14 Warwick lane EC/../../Post Office Directory
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