Myths & Curiosities
Temple Bar Memorial Dragon
A snarling dragon — the City's heraldic guardian — marks the spot where Wren's Temple Bar gateway stood, and where the monarch still halts to ask the Lord Mayor's permission to enter the City. Smaller silver-painted dragons copied from it guard every other road into the Square Mile.
- Subject
- The boundary dragon of the City of London
- Sculptor
- Charles Bell Birch
- Unveiled
- 1880
- Material
- Bronze
- Location
- Fleet Street, at the City boundary
- Area
- City of London
