Beyond the fact that he was born in Smithfield, London, the son of Inigo Jones, a Welsh cloth worker, and baptised at the church of St Bartholomew-the-Less, little is known about Jones's early years.
Alén de que naceu no barrio londiniense de Smithfield, fillo de Inigo Jones, un traballador católico de pano de Gales, e de ser bautizado na igrexa de St Bartholomew-the-Less, pouco se sabe sobre os primeiros anos de Jones.