Oxford Arms

Names

  • Oxford Arms
  • Oxford Arms Inn

Street/Area/District

  • Oxford Arms Passage

Maps & Views

Descriptions

from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)

Oxford Arms

At the west end of Oxford Arms Passage, Warwick lane. In Farringdon Ward Within (O.S. 1880).

Earliest mention: 1676 (L. and P. Chas. II. XVIII. 94); O. and M. 1677; London Gazette, 1672–3.

An old galleried inn.

The sign represented the coat-of-arms of the City of Oxford.

Site now occupied by warehouses.

from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)

Oxford Arms inn, on the W. side of Warwick lane, near Pater noster row.

from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)

[Oxford Arms Inn.] On the West side [of Warwick Lane is] Oxford Arms Inn, very considerable, and well resorted unto; the Inn stands backwards, and the passage to it hath small Houses on both sides.

from London Signs, by Bryant Lillywhite (1972)

11149 Oxford Arms Warwick Lane c1660–66, rebuilt after the great Fire; Oxford Arms in Warwick Lane 1672–1876, pulled down.