DATE
Tuesday 23rd September 2025 | 7:15pm | doors open @ 6:45pm
LOCATION
The Guards’ Chapel, Birdcage Walk, London SW1E 6HQ
From Temple to Square: 1878 to 2023
a public screening in the celebrated film series
London: This City is Made for Music
Circling around the heart of the Roman City [the Barbican fort] and the Saxon town [the Foundation Chapel of St Paul’s Cathedral
“These films cover an impressive range and amount of detail, and fascinating facts and anecdotes, to tell the story of our great city down the centuries, through architecture and music: history and tradition that continue to evolve and reinvent with each new generation.” Julian Cable
From Temple to Square: 1878 to 2023
By 1700, the rebuilding of London after the Great Fire of 1666 within the Square Mile is all but complete. Sir Christopher Wren has already rebuilt the Mediaeval Bar at Temple on Fleet Street. Robert Hooke, by swiftly measuring and certifying the merchants’ building plots, had long since enabled Society to dwell and trade once more. The City thrives, rapidly spreading beyond Roman bounds so, by 1878, Temple Bar is dismantled. The City modernises, as does its music:
Wren’s Bar returns to Paternoster Square in 2004 and becomes a place of architectural outreach in 2023.
With original music recorded by ArchiCantiores & the ArchiCantuor Quartet this public screening runs for 45 minutes with première recordings of Michael Berkeley, Elgar Howarth, John Roper, Ann Purves, Julian Cable and Paul Barker together with new recordings of Judith Weir and Cecilia McDowall, Goss, Sullivan, Stainer, Darke, Walton, Warlock, inter alia. Written and presented by Jonathan Louth with Marion Wyllie and featuring original drawings by Peter Kent, Topographical Artist.
Book at www.ticketsource.co.uk/archicantiores nearest stations at Victoria, St James’s Park, Westminster.