I have been informed that it is being, or has been, dismantled at Theobalds
Grove and will shortly be reinstated at or near its original location
between the Strand and Fleet Street.


My understanding is that it will be re-erected in or near Paternoster Square,
to the North West of the front entrance of St. Paul's Cathedral.

It can't go back in Fleet Street (sadly, in my view) because the traffic
wouldn't get through.

It was also offered to Middle and Inner Temple, to erect at the South end of
Middle Temple Lane, but we turned it down (I was a member of the Middle Temple
Estates Committee at the time) because it would have cost us over £1 million to
erect it there, and in any event it would have detracted from the attractive
gothic Temple Gardens building which straddles Middle Temple Lane thereabouts.

Marc.