Oxford Arms
Names
- Oxford Arms
- Oxford Arms Inn
Street/Area/District
- Oxford Arms Passage
Maps & Views
- 1677 A Large and Accurate Map of the City of London (Ogilby & Morgan): Oxford Arms Inn
- 1720 London (Strype): Oxford Arms Inn
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Oxford Arms Inn
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.