Beyond the bar is what is referred to as the Temple or Inner Temple. The Temple is an area or a series of buildings the is used as a college for training the elite lawyers of London and is “surrounded by walls and fine gardens”. However, before becoming a college, the area was used by the knights of templar. The knights moved out of the space during the reign of King Henry II.
Bibliography
De Saussure, César (1902). A foreign view of England in the reigns of George I and George II. London: J. Murray.
