Andrews Crosse stood on the site of the courtyard of the former Andrews Crosse Inn.
’A Dictionary of London’, originally published by H Jenkins in 1918 quoted the alleyway in Elizabethan times as: "within the bars of the New Temple with four houses adjoining in Chanceller Lane, lay between the tenement called the Cage north, the tenement of John Everard south, field called Fyckettes Felde west and the highway east in parish of St. Dunstan, and belonged to the priory of St. John. of Jerusalem".
The entrance leads onto Chancery Lane (called Chanceller Lane in the Elizabethan quotation)
When the inn closed, the courtyard became known as Crown Court. After having been Crown Court for centuries, the Andrews Crosse name was restored just before the Second World War due to a surfeit of other roads called Crown Court.
