The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple

The Inner Temple and the Middle Temple share the Temple site and in 1732 a deed of partition formally divided the site between them.

It was once speculated that the two Inns of the Temple arose from the division of a single earlier one, but that is now thought to be improbable. The Middle Temple's Hall was in what was seen as the middle of the Temple area. The monastic area was Inner, as nearer to the City. Early references to the two Inns are often to the Inner Inn or to the Middle Inn of the Temple. However, the area on the edge of the site, known as the Outer Temple, did not house a separate legal society.

The Pegasus, the emblem of the Inner Temple

You can identify which building belonging to which Inn by the emblems sculpted on them

The entrance into the Temple from the embankment

We walked to the embankment to take the tube from the Temple Station to Westminster Abbey.