14 Facts About Middle Temple

Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, commonly known simply as Middle Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court exclusively entitled to call their members to the English Bar as barristers, the others being the Inner Temple, Gray's Inn and Lincoln's Inn.

Middle Temple is the western part of "The Temple", which was the headquarters of the Knights Templar until they were dissolved in 1312.

The Thames being frozen over, beer from the Middle Temple cellars was used to fight the fire, which was eventually only contained by blowing up some buildings with gunpowder.

Middle Temple owns 43 buildings, many of which are listed buildings.

The ones in the Middle Temple itself are still held under the 1608 letters patent of James I, but some others just outside the Middle Temple were bought subsequently.

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Middle Temple Hall is at the heart of the Inn, and the Inn's student members are required to attend a minimum of 12 qualifying sessions there.

Middle Temple Hall is a popular venue for banqueting, weddings, receptions and parties.

Middle Temple Library possesses Emery Molyneux's terrestrial and celestial globes, which are of particular historical cartographical value.

South of that is the current library, and then, at the end of Middle Temple Lane, are the buildings called Temple Gardens, built on both sides of the lane by both Inns in 1861.

Lamb Buildings belong to Middle Temple, which bought the land from Inner Temple after the Great Fire of 1666.

Inner Middle Temple needed the money because it found itself short of funds due to the extensive property destruction.

The Lamb of God is the symbol of Middle Temple and is engraved above the entrances to the building.

Middle Temple is one of the few remaining liberties, an old name for a geographic division.

Quadrant House was acquired by the Middle Temple in 1999, and after five years of conversion is a barristers' chambers.