Lincolns Inn Chapel

This is the chapel of one of the four Inns of Court. It is on the site of the chapel built in 1315, and rebuilt in the 1960s following destruction in the Second World War.

Welcome to the historic and beautiful Temple Church, built by the Knights Templar, the soldier monks who protected pilgrims to the Holy Land during the Crusades. The round church is modelled on the church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. In 1608 King James I gave the whole area of the Temple to the two societies of lawyers, Inner and Middle Temple, who have maintained the church beautifully to the present day.

St Etheldreda's is the oldest Catholic church in England and one of only two remaining buildings in London from the reign of Edward I.
The church was built in 1290 by John De Kirkeby, Bishop of Ely. It is here that Shakespeare has John O'Gaunt making one of the finest speeches in the English language; ‘This blessed plot, this Earth, this realm, this England'.