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The entire floor is of flags of black and white marble; the roof of the tower is supported with six pillars, having an upper and lower range of small arches, except on the eastern side, opening into the church: The length of the church is eighty-three feet; the breadth sixty; and the height thirty-four; the height of the inside of the tower is forty-eight feet, and its diameter on the floor fifty-one. "In the porch or tower are the tombs of eleven Knights Templars; eight of them have the figures of ~250~~armed knights on them, three of them being the tombs of so many Earls of Pembroke.
The organ of this church is one of the finest in the world. "The Temple church is open for divine service every day, at eleven o'clock in the morning, and at four in the afternoon.
There are four entrances into the Temple, besides those in Fleet-street; and it is a thoroughfare during the day, but the gates are shut at night.
The gardens are open to the public in summer.
It is a place of much business and constant traffic, I assure you." "I perceive it," said Bob, "by the number of persons passing and repassing, every one apparently animated and impelled by some business of importance." "Yes, it is something like a steam-boiler, by which a considerable portion of the engines of the Law are kept in motion.
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