Watercolour by Findlay,
c. 1830, showing Farrar's Building, demolished in 1875. |
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This building was known in the eighteenth century
simply as an anonymous staircase near the Church porch. The association
with the name Farrar is explained by an inscription formerly above
the door (and preserved in a watercolour in the Guildhall Library),
which recorded that after the fire of 1678 the staircase was rebuilt
in the time of Thomas Farrar, Treasurer 1679.
The doorway of 1876. |
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The 1679 building, which closely resembled those
of similar date in King's Bench Walk and Hare Court and was of red
brick, filled with panelled rooms, was pulled down in 1875: perhaps
(as Master MacKinnon suggested) the worst outrage inflicted by Victorian
taste on the Inner Temple. Over the main doorway of its gaunt stone
replacement are the initials and arms of the Hon. Adolphus Liddell,
Treasurer 1875, and George Boden, Treasurer 1876.
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