3-100-735 - "Royal Academy of Arts, London"/Heritage Images

Inner Temple - Gate House, c1885. 'The view shows the Gatehouse, a building of the time of James I. The plumes of feathers in the panels between the first and second floors were intended as a compliment to Henry, Prince of Wales. The statement conveyed by the inscription surrounding the picture of a "hair-cutting saloon," that this was "formerly the Palace of Henry VIII. and Cardinal Wolsey" - not merely a Palace but the Palace - must be taken as an example of unusually "bold advertisement." The assertion can only be accounted for by supposing that the author of the inscription confused this Gatehouse with that of Middle Temple, with which...Wolsey's name is indeed connected'. Description by Alfred Marks. The Inner Temple is one of the four Inns of Court which are the professional bodies for barristers and judges in England and Wales. The Gate House on Fleet Street in London was rebuilt in the mid-18th century.