A nice sleep in is a good way to start a lazy Sunday. The weather man ahas bee pretty spot on with the predictions and today was no different. So we were not surprised to find it a bit damp outside when we opened the bedroom curtains.

A quick trip to the supermarket for mushrooms and a few other necessities and half an hour later we were sitting down to a yummy breakfast of bacon eggs mushrooms and tomatoes. Now what more could a girl ask for.

After our visit to the Hunter museum yesterday we had a stroll around Lincolns Inn Fields Park which is just across the road from the museum. We found a sheltered spot to have our lunch and work out what we were going to do next. I’d popped a guide book to London churches in the bag and with that and the map we worked out that Temple church wasn’t very far away.

To get there we had to go back past the museum. There are some lovely old buildings in the area and we spent a happy time pointing out to each other this or that feature. The Man was particularly taken with the decorative chimneys adorning the one fancy building. Me, well I do like some of the embellishments like shields and animals that decorate the walls and doorways. 

Guidebook in and map hand we followed the direction to Temple Church, via Fleet Street where we saw some amazingly tall thin Buildings. 

Until Dan Brown’s Davinci Code, Temple Church was just another one of London’s pretty old churches. Founded in the 12^th century it survived the great fire but was rebuilt by Christopher Wren around 1842. It was, like of London’s fine old buildings gutted during the blitz, closing it until 1958. Unfortunately the building was closed, but the grounds were beautiful this is defiantly somewhere we will come back to. One thing I learned from the guide book was that grave effigies of knights with their legs crossed do signify that they took part in the crusades. This confirms the answer to an earlier question that I had.