File:Temple Bar. City of London Boundary Dragon. C.B. Birch 1880. - 52253786634.jpg
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English: TEMPLE BAR FORMERLY STOOD HERE MDCCCLXXX
In the Middle Ages, the authority of the City of London Corporation reached beyond the City's ancient defensive walls in several places, known as the Liberties of London. To regulate trade into the City, barriers were erected on the major entrance routes wherever the true boundary was a substantial distance from the nearest ancient gatehouse in the walls. Temple Bar was the most used of these, since traffic between the City of London (England's prime commercial centre) and the Palace of Westminster (the political centre) passed through it. It was located where Fleet Street now meets The Strand, which is outside London's old boundary wall. There were originally 7 gates to the City of London, all of which are now demolished: Aldersgate, Aldgate, Bishopsgate, Cripplegate, Ludgate, Moorgate and Newgate. The sites of the "bars", the limits of the City boundaries outside (without) the walls where travellers paid their tolls, are still marked today with statues of dragons. There are now thirteen dragons around the City of London. The dragon at Temple Bar was designed by C. B. Birch in 1880 and the two 1849 statues on Victoria Embankment which were, until 1963, mounted above the entrance to the Coal Exchange on Lower Thames Street were designed by the City Architect, J. B. Bunning. The Dragons are - Victoria Embankment boundary dragon. Western Boundary. Nr Temple Place Junct. North Side Victoria Embankment boundary dragon. Western Boundary. Nr Temple Place Junct. South Side. Temple Bar boundary dragon. Strand/Fleet Street. Holborn boundary dragon. By Chancery Lane Tube Stn. Holborn boundary dragon. By Chancery Lane Tube Stn. Farringdon boundary dragon. Charterhouse Street/Farringdon Road. Aldersgate boundary dragon. Baltic S W/ Goswell Road. Moorgate boundary dragon. No longer there Bishopsgate boundary dragon. Norton Folgate/ Worship St/ Shoreditch High St. Aldgate boundary dragon. Aldgate High St./ Whitechapel High St. Tower Hill boundary dragon. Byward St. / Tower Hill. London Bridge boundary dragon. London Bridge South End. East. London Bridge boundary dragon. London Bridge South End. West. Blackfriars Bridge boundary dragon. Blackfriars Bridge South End. |
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