THE CITY WALK - London 2015 - page 416

If you're not paying to enter the great church, you can pop into the basement (entry to
left of front) for a café, fine WCs, a shop, and a peek at the memorials in the crypt. Belly
up to the iron Churchill Gates. Standing on a plaque honoring Churchill, you can see the
tomb of Admiral Lord Nelson directly below the dome.
• A right turn at St. Paul's would take you to the Millennium Bridge, leading across the
Thames to the Tate Modern and Bankside area. Instead, look for the Temple Bar gate—a
white stone archway—directly to the left of the church. The gate was once the west en-
trance to the City of London. Relocated here, it now welcomes you to. ..
P aternoster Square
This gate originally stood a half-mile west of here. It marked “Temple Bar,” the boundary
between the City of London and Westminster, where the griffin monument now stands (see
here ) . The original Temple Bar gate was built of stone by St. Paul's architect, Christopher
Wren, in 1672. But given the increase in traffic and new construction around it, the gate
didn't “fit” at Temple Bar anymore. It was disassembled in 1878 and carted off to orna-
ment the rural estate of a brewery owner. Finally, in 2004, the 2,700 stones were brought
back to The City and painstakingly rebuilt here in Paternoster Square.