Temple Bar
The gateway to the City Of London, dividing the Strand in Westminster and Fleet Street in the City. On special occasions, a ceremony is enacted, with the reigning monarch requesting permission to enter the City of London. The Lord Mayor of London then offers the monarch the city's pearl-encrusted Sword Of State as a token of loyalty to the Crown.
The Temple Bar was originally there to regulate trade into the commercial sector of the city and had a stone built gateway that now stands near St. Paul's Cathedral in Paternoster Square.
Temple Bar
The gateway to the City Of London, dividing the Strand in Westminster and Fleet Street in the City. On special occasions, a ceremony is enacted, with the reigning monarch requesting permission to enter the City of London. The Lord Mayor of London then offers the monarch the city's pearl-encrusted Sword Of State as a token of loyalty to the Crown.
The Temple Bar was originally there to regulate trade into the commercial sector of the city and had a stone built gateway that now stands near St. Paul's Cathedral in Paternoster Square.