Temple Church

The 'leaning tower' and walls of this large late medieval church survived bombing during the Second World War. The graveyard is now a public garden.

Bristol’s Temple Church is so called because the original church was built by the Knights Templar, perhaps the most famous of the medieval military orders.

Founded in the early 12th century to protect pilgrims in the Holy Land, the Templars were ‘warrior monks’, obeying religious vows of chastity and poverty whilst trained for war.