Historic London Arch to Be Moved Again
Temple Bar, the 17th-Century stone archway that once served as an entrance to the City of London financial district, will be re-erected in the churchyard of St. Paul’s Cathedral.
The stone arch, first erected in 1670, formed the main eastern entrance to the City of London at the intersection of Fleet Street, the capital’s newspaper row, and the Strand. It was pulled down in 1878 as part of a road-widening project.
The archway, reputed to have been designed by Sir Christopher Wren, has spent the last century at the entrance to Theobald’s Park in Hertfordshire where it has been crumbling and vandalized.
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