格雷酒店是剩下的四家酒店之一，成立于1370年，是律师生活和学习的场所。该酒店以切斯特首席法官雷吉纳尔德·格雷命名，他在伦敦的房屋所在处前身是酒店成为第一南广场的地方，在那里，维多利亚时代的作家、新闻记者查尔斯狄更斯曾像个上班族一样勤恳工作。格雷酒店为狄更斯小说中的部分情节提供了背景设定。 广场的尽头是散文家，历史学家和政治家弗朗西斯·培根的雕像，他从1576年直到1626年去世都一直住在酒店里。由于大法官的身份，他被认为带来更大的公平和公正到英国法律制度。然而，他自己被判贿赂，因此被罚款四万英镑，并被监禁在伦敦塔。

Gray's Inn is one of the four remaining Inns of Court, founded in 1370 as a place for lawyers to live and study. The Inn is named after Reginald de Grey, Chief Justice of Chester, whose London house was where the Inn began No. 1 South Square is where Victorian author and journalist Charles Dickens once worked as an office boy. Gray's Inn provided a setting for parts of the action in several of Dickens' novels. At the end of the square is a statue of essayist, historian and statesman Sir Francis Bacon , who lived at the Inn from 1576 until his death in 1626. As Lord Chancellor he has been credited with bringing greater fairness and impartiality to the English legal system. However, he was himself convicted of taking bribes, for which he was fined £40,000 and imprisoned in the Tower of London.