KING'S BENCH WALK AND THE
INNER TEMPLE GARDEN.

KING'S Bench Walk, once entitled "Benchers' Walk," took its later name from offices of the King's Bench having their site at the Southern extremity.

The present view is of the chambers at this extremity, abutting on the Temple Gardens, and within sight of the Embankment and the River. The unsavoury expanse of mud, which in the memory of many living once regaled the sight and other senses at low water, has disappeared for ever, and the hansom-cab flits along where once the *chiffonnier* and the mud-lark plied their calling. The village churches on the opposite bank of the River, crowned by the Surrey Hills, are now hidden by unromantic factories and chimneys. But the fresh green tints of the well-kept gardens, and the passage to and fro of the laundress carrying water, preserve—and long may they preserve—a welcome touch of rurality amid "the dusty purlieus of the Law."

The present view is of the chambers at this extremity, abutting on the Temple Gardens, and within sight of the Embankment and the River. The unsavoury expanse of mud, which in the memory of many living once regaled the sight and other senses at low water, has disappeared for ever, and the hansom-cab flits along where once the *chiffonnier* and the mud-lark plied their calling. The village churches on the opposite bank of the River, crowned by the Surrey Hills, are now hidden by unromantic factories and chimneys. But the fresh green tints of the well-kept gardens, and the passage to and fro of the laundress carrying water, preserve—and long may they preserve— a welcome touch of rurality amid "the dusty purlieus of the Law."

B1980.14.7A

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Yale Center for British Art, 2012