Dylan and I went to see Temple Church a few days ago. Temple church was built by the Knight's Templar (the monk warrior dudes founded to protect pilgrims going back and forth to Jerusalem in the 12th century). Like idiots we forgot to check and see if it was open that day. The church itself wasn't open-they were having first communion. So we just walked around and explored the outside. It was a strange place. The church itself was surrounded by office buildings and apartments. Nice ones. Really nice ones, the names on the buzzers had a lot of Lord so and so and Lady blah. There were also a lot of beautiful gardens. It is open to the public but they certainly don't advertise. We weren't sure we were in the right place for the longest time. So we walked up the street, through the guard gate(that man was not helpful at all), and wandered around the maze of buildings not sure if we were going the right way till a courtyard opened up and we saw the church. I don't know if it was in my imagination(probably) but the whole place had a very secretive air about it.
Read this for some of the history. Remember if you click on the pictures they get bigger!
The tall statue has two Knights Templar on one horse. The knights didn't have enough money for them to have their own horses.
I have yet to meet cool door I didn't want to take a picture of. This door had a huge keyhole:
I should have put my finger next to it to show scale. Anyway, I looked through the keyhole to see what was happening inside and all I could see was some brown leather boots. They looked like olden days Robin Hood boots. They were lace ups.It cracked me up. I was like, "Dylan come here! Check out these boots!"
On the walk back to the tube station(blackfriars, on a building next to it there is a black statue of guess what? a friar) we passed St. Bride's Church.
Read this for the history I am once again too lazy to type up:
Pretty cool church. I'll definitely have to come back and explore the inside.
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