Temple Bar Memorial

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After the removal of the Temple Bar Gate on the Strand this memorial was built to mark the location of the western entrance to the City of London. It was designed by Horace Jones and features a dragon on top and statues of Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales on the sides. The strikingly rampant "griffin" (as it is traditionally known) crowning the Temple Bar Memorial is really a dragon, the symbol of the City of London. The mythical griffin, as anyone familiar with Tenniel's illustration of the "Gryphon" in Alice in Wonderland knows, is half-eagle, half-lion, and so has feathery rather than webbed and scaly wings, and a heavy rather than a reptilian body. Dragons feature on the City arms in association with the Cross of St George, and are featured on boundary markers in the City, in their positive role as guardians of the City's treasure. (text credit) Date: 1880 325 photos taken in September 2020 with a Sony a6000 and processed in Reality Capture.