TEMPLE BAR
The Architectural Gateway
of the City of London
THE TEMPLE BAR TRUST
The TBT has been set up as a stand-alone Company of Limited Guarantee registered with the Charity Commission by the Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects, a modern Livery Company. The Temple Bar Trust will manage the both spaces leased from the Corporation of London and will use its surplus funds initiating architectural events at the Temple Bar and within the City.
FIRMNESSE . COMMODITIE . DELYTE
Commissioned by King Charles II, and designed by Sir Christopher Wren, the arch of Portland stone was constructed between 1669 and 1672, by Thomas Knight, the City Mason, and Joshua Marshall, Mas- ter of the Mason’s Company.