TEMPLE CHURCH (ST MARY'S)

TEMPLE CHURCH (ST MARY'S), INNER TEMPLE LANE EC4

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1064646
Date first listed:: 04-Jan-1950
List Entry Name:: TEMPLE CHURCH (ST MARY'S)
Statutory Address:: TEMPLE CHURCH (ST MARY'S), INNER TEMPLE LANE EC4

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1064646
Date first listed:: 04-Jan-1950
List Entry Name:: TEMPLE CHURCH (ST MARY'S)
Statutory Address 1:: TEMPLE CHURCH (ST MARY'S), INNER TEMPLE LANE EC4

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: TEMPLE CHURCH (ST MARY'S), INNER TEMPLE LANE EC4

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: City and County of the City of London (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 31235 81062

Details

1. 5002 INNER TEMPLE EC4 Inner Temple Lane Temple Church (St Mary's) TQ 3181 SW 7/103 4.1.50.

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2. Circular, aisled nave with clerestory and west porch, consecrated in 1185. Aisled chancel with no clerestory, south porch and north extension, consecrated in 1240. The whole has been very much restored and rebuilt, most recently after World War II and is now largely faced with ashlar and roofed with lead. Good mediaeval and later monuments. Late C17 reredos of carved wood.

Listing NGR: TQ3123581062

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Legacy System number:: 199532
Legacy System:: LBS

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 17 Greater London

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.