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Vaughan’s house, a very good example
of Wrens domestic style, and one or
two of the older blocks of buildings
may be admired. I cannot say any¬
thing for the Hall and Library of the
Inner Temple, which are in a poor
style of modern mock-Gothic, nor can
I praise the heavy mass of the Middle
Temple Library, which forms such an
eyesore in the view from the Thames
Embankment. There is very little
also to be said about the chapel. It
was so ruthlessly restored by Smirke
in 1827, that it is difficult to find any
ancient features. The monuments have
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SUNDIAL IN FOUNTAIN COURT, TEMPLE
been removed from the walls and are
not now to be seen, but I believe some
of them are preserved in a kind of vestry under the organ bellows, and
some in the triforium. <A small
portion of the old burial-ground is
on the north side, and among the
stones 1s one which bears the name
of Oliver Goldsmith, but the exact
place of his burial is unknown.
The Fountain Court is famous, and
is mentioned and described by
Dickens in Martin Chuzzlewit.
On the same side of Fleet Street
as the Temple is Serjeants’ Inn, a
new square of singular ugliness, but