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Temple Bar in 2012, with the Temple Bar Memorial in the centre. Temple Bar was the principal ceremonial entrance to the City of London from the City of Westminster.In the Middle Ages, London expanded city jurisdiction beyond its walls to gates, called 'bars', which were erected across thoroughfares.
The Churchill Arms is a public house at 119 Kensington Church Street on the corner with Campden Street, Notting Hill, London. There has been a pub on the site since at least the late nineteenth century. Previously known as the "Church-on-the-Hill", the pub received its current name after the Second World War. [1]
Fountain Court, at the heart of Middle Temple. The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, commonly known simply as Middle Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court entitled to call their members to the English Bar as barristers, the others being the Inner Temple (with which it shares Temple Church), Gray's Inn and Lincoln's Inn.
In 2003 the church was the location of a music video of Libera. [15] While writing the score for Interstellar, film composer Hans Zimmer chose the Temple Church for the recording of the parts of the score that included an organ. The church's former organist, Roger Sayer, played the organ, while a large orchestra played throughout the church. [16]
Map of London in about 1300, showing large monastic holdings in purple. The Temple is the purple precinct farthest centre-left. The name is recorded in the 12th century as Novum Templum, meaning 'New Temple'. [3] It is named after the then 'new' church (Temple Church) and surrounding holdings then belonging to the Knights Templar.
St Andrew Holborn was an ancient English parish that until 1767 was partly in the City of London and mainly in the county of Middlesex.Its City, thus southern, part retained its former name or was sometimes officially referred to as St Andrew Holborn Below the Bars.
The number of bells in the church increased to twelve at one point and were subsequently reduced to its current number of eight after a fire in the steeple in 1836. However, save for a brief deviation from the theme (see below), the "Ten Bells" name has stuck. [3] The interior of the pub is decorated floor to ceiling with original Victorian tiling.
As London expanded during the early 19th century, many new churches and chapels were built independently by the growing nonconformist urban population; to match the growth in nonconformist churches and chapels, the Anglican "Waterloo church" building programme saw numerous Anglican churches constructed across south London in the first half of ...