London - Inner Temple & Gardens

Inner Temple Hall, the dining and assembly hall of the Inner Temple, was destroyed by bombing in 1941 and rebuilt in 1952-55. It has a heated marble floor and stained-glass windows with the arms of former members of the inn. At the west end are a vaulted room and crypt dating from the 14th century.

The Inner Temple Gardens, reaching down to the Thames, are not open to the public. In these gardens are still grown the white and red roses which according to tradition were plucked here at the beginning of the Wars of the Roses and became the emblems of the houses of York and Lancaster.