Middle Temple
United Kingdom / London, England
Location ID: #10136543
Temple consists of two Inns of Court with Middle Temple (to the west) and Inner Temple (to the east). The buildings linked by a labyrinth of passageways and courts. The entrance to Temple is marked by a bronze griffin. The Temple Bar Memorial marks boundary between Westminster and the City. An elaborate stone arch passes into Middle Temple Lane, which runs all the way to the Thames, separating Inner and Middle Temple. The Middle Temple Hall is one of the finest examples of an Elizabethan hall in the country with a double hammer beam roof. Parliament Chamber, the Queen's Room and the Smoking Room are all wood panelled rooms with fireplaces. The sloping lawns of Middle Temple Garden overlook the Thames. Middle Temple also boasts a row of 17th Century timber-frame houses, Fountain Court, various Victorian reception rooms, barristers' chambers of different architectural periods, and a library rebuilt in the neo-Georgian style in 1956.
Location Category:
- LANDMARKS - General;
- LEGAL - Barristers' chambers, solicitors' offices;
- LEGAL - Inns of Court;
- PREMIERE LOCATIONS - *
Architecture Style:
- Dickensian;
- Elizabethan;
- Georgian;
- Jacobean;
- Modern (1920s-1940s);
- Modern (post 1945);
- Neo-Georgian;
- Period 1500-1600;
- Period 1600-1700;
- Period 1700-1800;
- Period 1800-1850;
- Period 1850-1900;
- Period 1940-1950;
- Period 1950-1960;
- Victorian