Buttery at Inner Temple Hall
BUTTERY AT INNER TEMPLE HALL, CROWN OFFICE ROW EC4
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1359174
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jan-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Buttery at Inner Temple Hall
- Statutory Address:
- BUTTERY AT INNER TEMPLE HALL, CROWN OFFICE ROW EC4
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1359174
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jan-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 07-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Buttery at Inner Temple Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- BUTTERY AT INNER TEMPLE HALL, CROWN OFFICE ROW EC4
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BUTTERY AT INNER TEMPLE HALL, CROWN OFFICE ROW 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:
- TQ3122181008
Details
TQ 3181 SW CROWN OFFICE ROW EC4
Inner Temple Buttery at Inner Temple Hall
627/7/113 04-JAN-1950
GV II*
Buttery to former hall. Probably C14 restored after bomb damage c1950. Stone rubble with asWar cornice, quoins plinth and window dressings. Flat roof Two storeys. North side retains at lower level a blocked pointed arched opening and one blocked four-centred arched opening. Above is a c1950 triple casement with leaded lights. West side has two c1950 round-headed casements with leaded lights to first floor and two c1950 rectangular windows with pivoting leaded lights to ground floor, the left hand one with lower cill. South front has one c1950 round-headed window with pivoting lights to first floor and two square lancets. Ground floor has two square c1950 pivoting casements and two similar lancets. Interior has first floor buttery (16x14,feet) roofed with a quadripartite vault with hollow-chamfered ribs which spring from the floor level. The crypt below has a similar vaulted roof and a C15 stone fireplace in the west wall with moulded jambs and four-centred head with blank shields in the foliated spandrel. Above the fireplace is a reset stone bracket of c 1500 carved with an angel holding two shields, one a chevron charged with a molet between three lions' heads razed, the other five palets on a chief three lozenges. West wall also has a small cupboard with a rebated arched head. The buttery was to a C 14 hall, probably of the Knights Templars dispersed in 1308 who had two halls in the Temple. By 1324 their property had been transferred to the Knights Hospitallers who merely drew an income from/the land. Lawyers are known to have occupied the site by 1381 during Wat Tyler's rebellion as there is a record of their lodgings and records being destroyed in the rebellion. The hall was rebuilt in the C 19 and following damage during the Second World War again rebuilt in 1952. The Buttery is one of only a handful of C 14 secular stone buildings in Greater London of which most examples are Royal Palaces. [Pevsner BOB London :1 P345.]
Bibliography
6384 Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England (English Heritage), Part 17 Greater London
Listing NGR: TQ3122181008
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 199526
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: London I: The Cities of London and Westminster, (1962)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 17 Greater London
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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