Temple Bar

Phil on 10 Feb 2003   Link to this

According Latham's Companion volume, Temple Bar was a gate and gate-house that marked "the end of the city's jurisdiction and the beginning of that of Westminster."

Glyn on 11 Feb 2003   Link to this

The emblem of the City of London has always been the Griffin (half eagle, half lion), and you will see it all around the borders of the City of London defending its territory.

Here is a picture of a Griffin at Temple Bar:

http://www.myk.mcmail.com/london/the_city/other...

Phil on 8 Jul 2003   Link to this

This 7 July 2003 article describes how the original gatehouse building was moved to Hertfordshire and is now destined to be moved, brick by brick, back to London: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,...

Michael Robinson on 13 Feb 2004   Link to this

Believe the article Phil cites concerns Christopher Wren's post great fire Temple Bar, completed in 1672.

Alan Burkitt-Gray on 13 Feb 2004   Link to this

It *is* Wren's gate that is being returned to the City -- not in its original position, which was across the road where Fleet Street, in the City of London, turns into the Strand, in the City of Westminster, but about 50 metres north of St Paul's Cathedral, close to the Chapter House, as part of the new Paternoster Square development -- on a site closely associated with Pepys, as the development is on the site of Paternoster Row, where until the fire of 1666 was the centre of the London book trade.
The scaffolding is now up on the site and work is starting on the rebuilding -- I work about five minutes' walk away.

Here is a City of London Corporation site about the scheme: http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/leisure_heritage...
and here is a site with up to date pictures of the project: http://www.thetemplebar.info/index.htm

I.Mazzara on 27 Mar 2004   Link to this

The "emblem" of the City is in fact an Heraldic Dragon not a Griffin.
You can verify this with the Corporation of London and the College of Arms.
I only learned this on the City of London Guides course where calling it a Griffin is an automatic fail

Glyn on 10 Nov 2004   Link to this

The reopening of Temple Bar in London in November 2004: http://www.thetemplebar.info/

Keith Hogburn on 11 Nov 2004   Link to this

I know the where abouts of a wine cask decorated with vines and grapes, with etched writing which reads temple bar,wonder if there is any connection, or history.
look forward to any information.

Terry F on 23 Jan 2006   Link to this

Temple Bar, clearly marked, stands athwart the west end of Fleet Street, on the left margin at 10:00 (S of the NW cornet) of this segment of the 1746 map. http://www.motco.com/map/81002/SeriesSearchPlat...

Terry Foreman on 5 Oct 2010   Link to this

A narrative and visual history of Temple Bar back to Pepys's day
per links by Alan Burkitt-Gray and Glyn

http://www.thetemplebar.info/history