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#PaternosterSquare was destroyed during the #Blitz in #WW2 & rebuilt as a pedestrian precinct with offices & shops. Redeveloped in the early 1990s it is now the location of the #LondonStockExchange & offices of investment banks such as #GoldmanSachs & #Nomura. In 2004 #ChristopherWren’s renovated #TempleBar was erected as a grand entrance to the square from #LudgateHill.
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#TempleBar was designed & built in 1671 by Sir #ChristopherWren to replace the dilapidated 14th-century gate that marked the western limits of the City of London where #FleetStreet & #Strand meet. Above the arch, facing the City, were statues of #JamesI & #AnneOfDenmark, while on the west side, facing Westminster, were statues of #CharlesI & #CharlesII.
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Heads of traitors mounted on spikes were exhibited on top of #TempleBar & could be examined by telescope, for a halfpenny a go. Jacobites #FrancisTowneley & #GeorgeFletcher were the last. Put up in 1746 their heads remained for +25yrs until a storm blew them down. Stocks were also set up by the gate & were occupied by, amongst others, #TitusOates in 1685 & #DanielDefoe in 1703.
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In 1878 #TempleBar was removed from its #FleetStreet location as the narrow central arch restricted traffic flow. After lying in bits in a scrap yard in Farringdon for 10 years, the gate was rescued by wealthy London brewer & politician Sir #HenryBruceMeux who purchased the dismantled stone and re-erected the gate at his mansion house #TheobaldsPark in Hertfordshire.
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In 2001 the #CityOfLondon Corporation along with a number of #CityLivery Companies raised the money to buy Wren’s #TempleBar back, then restore and rebuild it as an entrance to the redeveloped #PaternosterSquare beside #StPaulsCathedral in 2004. Today the room at the top of the gate is the City’s smallest livery hall, headquarters of the #WorshipfulCompanyOfCharteredArchitects
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The #TempleBarMemorial stands in the middle of the road where #Strand becomes #FleetStreet & the #CityOfWestminster meets the #CityOfLondon. It was designed & built by #CityArchitect #HoraceJones in 1880 & was constructed to replace & mark the location where #ChristopherWren’s #Baroque #TempleBar arch, which now forms the entrance to #PaternosterSquare, once stood.
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#TempleBarMemorial is crowned by a #Dragon, symbol of the #CityOfLondon. Along the base are the mythical giant guardians of the City, #GogAndMagog. A bronze image on the east side shows a curtain fall on Wren’s #TempleBar while the statues of #QueenVictoria & #EdwardPrinceOfWales, celebrate the fact that in 1872, they were the last royals to pass through Wren’s gate.
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The western limits of #CityOfLondon were marked with a gate or ‘bar’ close to #TempleChurch of #KnightsTemplar, hence #TempleBar, since 1293 when the boundary was drawn by a chain between two wooden posts. In 1351 a stone gate was erected & refurbished over the years, surviving the 1666 #GreatFireOfLondon before it was demolished & replaced by #ChristopherWren’s Arch in 1672.
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When #QueenElizabethI went to #StPaulsCathedral to give thanks for defeating the #SpanishArmada in 1588 she waited at #TempleBar for the #LordMayorOfLondon to welcome her into the City. He offered her his #SwordOfState as a sign of fealty, the sword was carried at the head of the procession to show that the Monarch was under his protection; a tradition maintained ever since.
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