Lost in A Field
I remember coming across Temple Bar in a field in Enfield/Cheshunt whilst out for a walk as a child in the 1960s. It seemed such a strange place for it to end up. There were no explanatory signs to say what it was and why it was there. There was tall grass all around it and possibly some sort of fence; so it was impossible to get too close. Every time we walked that way, I used to wonder how on earth this lovely arch came to be lost in the middle of a field, anonymous and unloved: it seemed so strange, almost other worldly. I believe it has now made its way back to the City.
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This photograph (L130141) shows the imposing gateway of Temple Bar in 1875, in its original position at the west end of Fleet Street where it marked the western boundary of the City of London. Temple Bar was erected there in 1672, but by the 1870s it was causing traffic congestion; it was taken down stone by stone and Sir Henry Meux had it re-erected as a gate to his estate at Theobalds in Hertfordshire. In 2003, Temple Bar was taken down again and re-erected in Paternoster Square in London, near St Paul’s Cathedral. The project was completed in November 2004.
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Comment from The Frith Memory Archivist on Tuesday, 26th July 2011.