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Pre. 06 És Y¥. AS fk is 227 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 anything 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 Wj. 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.
