Qualla: Inner Temple https://qualla.com/inner-temple en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/inner-temple-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Inner Temple https://qualla.com/inner-temple Inner Temple: Introduction https://qualla.com/inner-temple/ Photo credit Xiquinho Silva from Cacau, CC BY-SA 2.0. Step off Fleet Street through the narrow archway beside number 17, and central London goes quiet. The traffic noise drops to a hum. The pavement turns to flagstones. Three minutes' walk from the Royal Courts of Justice you are suddenly in a courtyard of brick chambers, a Templar church with stone effigies of crusader knights on its floor, and a garden that Shakespeare claimed was where the Wars of the Roses began. The Inner Temple has been here since at least 1388. It runs its own roads, owns its own land, and answers to no one in the City of London except, technically, the Crown - for a peppercorn rent that James I set in 1608.

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/inner-temple-wp/gcpv-inner-temple-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Inner Temple: The Knights' Land https://qualla.com/inner-temple/ Photo credit Basher Eyre, CC BY-SA 2.0. The name is the giveaway. The Knights Templar - the warrior monks of the Crusades - bought this stretch of riverbank in the twelfth century and built a complex of buildings around a round church modelled on the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. The church was consecrated by the Patria...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/inner-temple-wp/gcpv-inner-temple-the-knights-land.mp3 0:06 2 full Inner Temple: Sacked and Rebuilt https://qualla.com/inner-temple/ Photo credit Jean Froissart, Public domain. Wat Tyler's rebels burned the Temple in 1381 during the Peasants' Revolt - not out of any quarrel with lawyers (though that came later) but because the land belonged to the Prior of St John, a particular target of the rising. The chronicler John Stow wrote that after the rebels f...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/inner-temple-wp/gcpv-inner-temple-sacked-and-rebuilt.mp3 0:06 3 full Inner Temple: The Blitz https://qualla.com/inner-temple/ Photo credit Steve Cadman from London, U.K., CC BY-SA 2.0. On the night of 10 May 1941, the worst night of the London Blitz, incendiary bombs gutted the Temple. Temple Church burned. The Hall was lost. The Library, which had grown to contain 26,000 law books and 36,000 historical volumes, went up - 45,000 books were destroyed, though the...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/inner-temple-wp/gcpv-inner-temple-the-blitz.mp3 0:06 4 full Inner Temple: Gandhi, Gilbert, Drake https://qualla.com/inner-temple/ Photo credit Elisa.rolle, CC BY-SA 4.0. The list of people who studied here is long and improbable. Mahatma Gandhi was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1891. So was Jawaharlal Nehru. The economist John Maynard Keynes was admitted but never practised. So was the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, who much preferred writin...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/inner-temple-wp/gcpv-inner-temple-gandhi-gilbert-drake.mp3 0:06 5 full Inner Temple: Garden, Pegasus, Rookery https://qualla.com/inner-temple/ Photo credit David Jones, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Inner Temple Garden was laid out around 1601 and remains one of the loveliest pieces of green space in central London - a sloping lawn running down toward the Thames Embankment, with herbaceous borders and a sundial from 1707 by Edward Strong the Elder. The iron gates of 1730...

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