Holborn Bars

This is the view from the inside courtyard of Holborn Bars that used to be the Prudential Assurance Head Office in Holborn. It's my short-cut to Chancery Lane tube station. It is a magnificent Victorian building, designed by Alfred Waterhouse (same architect as the Natural History Museum) and built of terracotta manufactured in Tamworth in 1878. The previous building on the same site was one of the Inns of Courts, called Furnival's Inn, where Charles Dickens had rooms from 1834 to 1837 (there's a blue plaque).