Knights Templar pub, Bristol
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Knights Templar pub, Bristol
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 26 Aug 2016
Knights Templar is a large Wetherspoon's pub in a modern building at 1 The Square. Temple Quay House http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5091914 is on the right. The J D Wetherspoon website records that the nearby Leaning Tower of Bristol http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/896026 is a curious landmark, a non-vertical tower which is all that remains of Temple Church built in the 1390s (and blitzed in World War II) which had replaced the original church on the site built by the Knights Templar. This one-time order of warrior monks had been granted land here (Temple Fee) by Robert, Earl of Gloucester (illegitimate son of King Henry I). It included Temple Meads (or meadows), now the site of Bristol's main railway station and the adjacent Quay Point development, in which this pub is located in Temple Square.
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Image Location
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51.450756
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-2.582199