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Temple Bar is coming home. It’s London’s last
surviving gate, listed as a Grade 1 building. For
more than a century it has been buried in
Hertfordshire woods, where it has been slowly
going to ruin. Now scientists are numbering its
more than 1,000 stones and by the end of next
year it should be standing once again in the
capital city.
The restored gate will be put where it originally
stood. In the past, its wooden form witnessed a lot
of important events: for example, the Black Prince
rode through it after the Battle of Poitiers, with his
prisoner, the king of France. It was painted up for
the wedding of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII.
During Nelson s funeral, black velvet was hung
over it.
The stone gate dates from 1669. Then king
Charles II told off the lord mayor for the horrible
state of the old wooden structure. The mayor
explained that after the great fire of London (which
had happened three years earlier) many other
buildings needed some work first, but the king
wouldn t listen. He ordered Christopher Wren, the
great architect, to create a new gate. To make it
possible the king provided Wren with the
necessary stone.
In 1878 the building of the Royal Courts of
Justice in Gothic style made the classical style
gate look strange and old-fashioned. The
corporation of London agreed that the gate had to
go but decided to keep it somewhere else instead
of selling the stones as building material.
But the corporation have never doubted that
Temple Bar would one day come back to the city.
In fact, after more than a century, Joyce Nash,
the present inheritor of the office, has recently
welcomed what he called Temple Bar s
homecoming journey to its rightful place in the
city.
6.1. What is true about Temple Bar?
a) It has been hidden away for about 100 years.
b) Over the past century it has fallen into ruin.
c) Its more than 1,000 stones have just been
numbered.
d) It has just come back to the city.
6.2. Which event in the past did the old wooden
gate NOT become part of?
a) the capture of a king
b) the return of a hero
c) a royal ceremony
d) a hero’s burial
6.3. Charles II ordered to restore the gate
because
a) the lord mayor wanted to restore it.
b) it was the only building that needed restoration.
c) it was badly damaged.
d) Christopher Wren provided the stone for its
restoration.
6.4. What fact makes it possible for the gate
to return to the city?
a) It has always impressed the citizens.
b) Its stones weren’t used to build something
else.
c) The corporation has always taken good
care of it.
d) It doesn’t belong to any private owner.
6.5. What was Joyce Nash’s reaction to the
Temple Bar’s return?
a) He had some doubts about it.
b) He did not really believe it.
c) He did not think London is the right place
for it.
d) He was enthusiastic about it.
1. a
2. a
3. c
4. b
5. d