Organisation
Inner Temple
- Slug
- inner-temple-171
- Alternative names
- The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple
- Organisation type
- Legal group
- Founding date
- 1388-01-01
- Dissolution date
- Unknown
- Location
- london-1
- Languages
- Unknown
One of the four Inns of Court and is a professional association for barristers and judges. The Inner Temple was a distinct society from at least 1388, although as with all the Inns of Court its precise date of founding is not known. After a disrupted early period (during which the Temple was almost entirely destroyed in the Peasants’ Revolt) it flourished, becoming the second-largest Inn during the Elizabethan period. During The Blitz, the Hall, Temple, Temple Church, and many sets of barristers’ chambers were devastated. Rebuilding was completed in 1959, and today the Temple is an active Inn of Court with over 8,000 members.