THE CLOISTERS.

ONE of the most interesting survivals of the original grouping of the Temple Buildings as a Monastic, or quasi-monastic establishment. The present Hall of the Inner Temple stands upon the site of the Refectory of the Knights Templars, and the cloister upon that of the original cloisters connecting the Refectory with the Church. The prefent cloister was built in 1681, as an inscription records, in place of its predecessor destroyed by fire in 1678.