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Temple Bar

The only surviving gateway into the City, back after a century in a field in Hertfordshire.

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Photo by Rainer Halama, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Wren built it in 1672 to stand across Fleet Street where the City met Westminster, with Charles I, Charles II, James I and Anne of Denmark in niches and a room above where the heads of traitors were put on spikes. By 1878 it was in the way of the traffic and was taken down stone by stone, bought by a brewer, and rebuilt as the gateway to his park at Theobalds, where it stood for 126 years. The City brought it home in 2004 and set it up as the entrance to Paternoster Square beside St Paul's.

Where
Paternoster Square, EC4M 7DX
Nearest station
St. Paul's · 2 min walk

The upper room is open on occasional days.

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