Temple Church, London

The Temple Church is a late 12th-century church in the City of London located between Fleet Street and the River Thames, built by the Knights Templar as their English headquarters. During the reign of King John (1199–1216) it served as the royal treasury, supported by the role of the Knights Templars as proto-international bankers. It is jointly owned by the Inner Temple and Middle Temple Inns of Court, bases of the English legal profession. It is famous for being a round church, a common design feature for Knights Templar churches, and for its 13th and 14th century stone effigies. It was heavily damaged by German bombing during World War II and has since been greatly restored and rebuilt. The area around the Temple Church is known as the Temple and nearby formerly in the middle of Fleet Street stood the Temple Bar, an ornamental processional gateway. Nearby is the Temple Underground station.

Buried in the church

• Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex
• Sir Anthony Jackson (1599–1666)
• Sir Richard Chetwode, Sheriff of Northamptonshire (1560–1635)
• William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke (1146–1219)
• Robert de Veteripoint, Sheriff of Westmoreland (died 1228)
• William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (1190 – 6 April 1231)
• Gilbert Marshal, 4th Earl of Pembroke (1194 – 27 June 1241)
• Sir Edmund Plowden (1518–1585)
• Dr. Richard Mead (1673–1754)
• Francis Rogers (1791–1851)
• James Simpson (1737–1815), Attorney General of Colonial South Carolina. His wife, who predeceased him, is buried in the South Transept of Westminster Abbey.
• Sir John Tremayne (1647–1694)
• Silvester de Everdon